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ON CYCAS TAIWANIANA, sp. Nov., AND C. SEEMANNI A.Br. 
By W. Carrutsers, F.R.S. 
(Puates 330, 881). 


Tue characters employed in grouping t the different species of 
the genus Cycas are 1 ot altogether et, No doubt this is 


being the revolute mar, or the more or less flat nature of the 
segments. But t he fact a in the most characteristic revolute 
species (C. revoluta L.) there are plants with flat margins shows 


(C. Beddomei Dyer) | has its affinities with the C. circinalis and the 
Australian species, and not with C. revoluta or C.inermis. Neither can 


this depends in several species on the age of the spa ix. i dt 
appears to me, looking at the materials existing in the Herbarium 
of the British Museum, and at the published figures and descrip- 
tions, that the form of the barren expansion in the female spadices 
will supply, in the present state of our Loaledes, “sone characters 
for g a than any hitherto suggested. Three types are 
resen 
: First - Where the apex is dilated into rhomboidal lamina, yas 
teeth on the two upper margins of the rhomb, the terminal on 
being usually much larger. To this poe ae C. circinalis, C. 
Rumphii, C. Seemanni, the Australian species, &c, 
Seco: ae Where the lamina is af ae broad, and is deeply 


Linn., C. inermis Lour,, and C OT enione hee deseri bed. 

Third. Where the lamina is broader than long, and the spiny 
teeth are borne chiefly on the upper ma rgin. To this group 
belong the species discovered a figured by W, Griffith,—C. pec- 
tinata Griff., C. Jenkinsiana Griff., C. macroca saa ne The ‘materials 
for the history of this group are still very imperfect 

the arium of Dr. Hance, which was some years ago 
JOURNAL OF Serie’ ou. 81; [Janvary, 1893.] 


g ON CYCAS TAIWANIANA AND C. SEEMANNI A. Br. 


acquired by the British Museum, there is part of a leaf and three 
foliar — of a Cycas from the Island of Formosa. It belongs 

of C. reroluta, though the barren lamina approaches 
the srecies sof the ei group. It may be thus described :— 

s Taiwaniana, sp. noy.—Leaf with numerous erecto- 
patent subopposite segments springing from a terete rachis ; petiole 
unknown ; segments flat, linear-lanceolate (5 to 7 in. long, rather 
more than + in. broad), decreasing below to a base about oa the 

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on e e 

unkno emale spadices nearly glabrous, long, with slender 
sania fruit (8 or 4) borne above the middle; lamina nearly as 
broad as long, deeply any on both sides into linear comicets 
spines of the same substance as the lamina; terminal spine some- 
what vig broad and serrate. 

The specific name-is from Tai-wan, the native name of 
Formosa. "We more definite information is contained on the label 
than that the specimens were collected in the island of Formosa by 

r. Swinhoe, and sent to Dr. Hance in the autumn of 1867, from 
whose herbarium, as I have said, came the specimen in the British 
Museum on which the species is found 

n the Flora Vitiensis Dr. Seemann described a Ci ycas which he 

found i in the Fiji Islands, and referred to (. circina/is L. A. Braun 
subsequently peop out geome by which he separated it from 
C. cireinalis L. and name » Seenanni. Baron von Mueller has 
described the plant at Teng. “Dr. Masters having lately given the 
tore Departm a series of photographs “of the plant, it 
med to the Editor desirable to give an illustration of this fine 
Ohad; discovered by and named after the founder of this Journal. 
It has a stem thirty at high. In the specimen figured from the 


ch. e stem is marke by alternate constrictions and 
enlargements, caused by the idtenistios of the fruiting spadices and 
the normal leaves. The scars left by the spadices are smaller, 


preading and 

urved; they gradually decrease from a little above the podiutibked 

base, and end in a long acuminate apex. The male cone is two 

feet. long, and. the scales have a short, acute, sobondiins apex on the 

upper part of thecone. The female spadix bears from. six to eight 

» Subtriangular apex, with small spines along 

id a@ terminal one scarcely larger than the 
others. It was found in Viti-Levu and Ovalan ws Dr. Seemann. 

In the Museum Herbarium there are specimens of a Cycad from 

8 Tonga Islands, collected by Banks and Sohainler in Capt. Cook’s 


segments of the leaves, on the presence of a large terminal spine 
on the i but until more materials are abtahied from the Tonga, 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 3 


Fiji, New Caledonia and nein bnoanins islands, it is undesirable to 
add new names to the genus, as they may represent only unim- 
portant geographical fpalineatiin. 


ExpLanations or Puates. 

Tas. 330.—Cycas Seemanni A. Br. Representing the general aspect of the 
plant, the male and the fe on fruiting heads, with a single spadix, all somewhat 
reduced in size from photo 

AB. 331.—Cycas Falvenisnk. from specimen in the British Museum. 


AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUBL 
By tHe Rey. W. Moye Rogers, F.L.S. 


{Continued from vol. xxx.,.p. 341.) 


Grove 8. Betuarprant (= Guanputost Focke).—St. mostly 
prostrate and roundish, rooting, often Sincatts All the stems densely 
clothed with stalked glands, bristles, acicles and prickles of various 


pre 
sizes. Prickles more frequently weak than in the Rapuuz and the 
Korsterianr; often subulate. Pan. racemose or with racemose 
lateral branches at the base. All the lts. distinctly stalked. Stipules 
filiform. Stam. rather frequently falling short of the styles, or 
barely caliailiag fats 

Usually rather small low-growing plants. 

A. Stalked glands very unequal; some of those on the pan. 
longer than the diameter of the ped.:—(74) viridis; (75) Duro- 
trigunn; (76) divexiramus ; (77 pork lus ; eal Bellardi ; (79) serpens ; 
nas hirtus and vars. All nearly allied pla 

. Stalked glands short; those on the pan. hidden in the dense 
oa or felt (*‘ sunken ’’), or at least shorter than the diameter of 
the ped. :—-(81) te) arragits es ? oigoclados aud vars. 

74. R. virmis Kalt. J Bot. 1890, pp.. 134, 166. R. in- 
eultus Wirtg. Syn. Bh, p.- "369. —St., petioles, pe “1 alee 3 and 


te see ate; term, roundish or bro - ovate-cuspidate or 
plliptio-scuminate from a slightly emarginate base, often with 1 or 2 
lobate dentitions above the middle (usually on one side only). 
Pan. usually rather long and lax, pyramidal, with straight rachis and 
numerous nearly patent few-flowered branches, de <i like the st. 
except in having still slenderer aciculate pric Sep. attenuate- 
acuminate, purple with stalked glands, itis 64 Pet. very long 
and narrow, pointed and cun pork white or slightly pinkish. 
Stam. white (or reddening ‘we, usually far surpass:ng the styles. 
In several counties (N, & 3,). 
B 2 


4 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


When growing in woods, very similar to R. pallidus W. & N., but 
readily distinguished from it by its more unequal prickles, acicles 
and stalked glands and less diffusely branched pan., and also 
usually by its rounder, less acuminate, less deeply toothed and less 
cordate-based term. lt. In open sunny places the plant becomes 
much stouter, its 1. lose their soft hairs, and its broadly pyramidal 
and nearly naked panicles are enormous. It then recalls the next 
species and rosaceus. 

. R. Durorrieum R. P. Murray, Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 15.-- 
St. prostrate, bluntly angular, apparently quite glabrous, yellowish 
on the under side, bright red above, densely clothed with slender acicles, 
bristles and stalked glands of all sizes. Prickles also remarkably 
crowded, very. long-based, very slender, declining, faleate and deflexed. 
L. 5-nate-pedate to 8-nate, subpersistent. Lis. green, subylabrous, 
acutely doubly incise-serrate, acuminate; term. broadly roundish- 
ovate or slightly obovate, with long, gradually acuminate point and 
subcordate base. Pan. lax, with fleauose hairy rachis (armed like the 
st.) and crowded ultra-axillary rounded top; its lower ]. 5-nate. Dors. ° 


giving the pan. as a whole a less markedly pyramidal outline than 
In viridis. 

_ So far found only in Dors., though in at least three or four 
distinet localities and in considerable quantity, and showing no 
noticeable variation under changed conditions of shade and soil. 

R 


Mg} ft with many 
short shining hairs beneath, with acute crowded teeth, which are nearly 
te 1. but € more compound in the 5-nate ; 
erm. obovate-acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate, with narrowed - 
somewhat obtusangular truncate base. Pan. only slightly narrowing 
above into the conspicuously cylindrical ultra-axillary top, with many 
longish patent or even divaricate 1-3-flowered branches and sub- 
sessile term. fl.; the slightly flexuose rachis and the ped. more or 
less felted above, densely hairy, with many very slender aciculate 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 5 


A distinct-looking eens ; when fresh appearing just inter- 
mediate between Rf. ‘longi yrsiger and R. viridis, and frequently 
growing with the pat see not observed by me with the 
latter. 

77. BR. saxicotus P. J. Muell.—*St. angular, nearly glabrous. 
L. mostly 5-nate. Lts. with short soft hairs beneath, shining, espe- 
cially on the nerves; term. broadly ovate, pol ointed. Inflorescence 
often elongated, lax ; branches often with aggregated ped., densely 
patent-hairy, furnished vith crowded glands, bristles and acicles. 
Sep. patent in fr. Pet. narrow, white.” he foregoing is a 
translation of Dr. Focke’s recently pobtialsed description of this 
species. Speaking of its distribution in Germany, he adds, ‘‘ The 

i i e; but simi 


hin 

hirtus or Koehleri, are very common.” Plants from Oxf., Suss. and 
Monm. that he has thus named = me have brownish polished st., 

with very unequal broad-based prickles and acicles and com- 
veratively few stalked glands, l. greyish green beneath, remarkably 
hairy pan.-rachis with most of the unequal-stalked glands hidden in the 
hair, the pan. branches crowded above into a rather narrow; 
rounded, cylindrical top, with sig distant, few-flowered branches 


ona 

There is so much differe a opinion amongst us in England as 
to the distinctive ia tree rat the three next ‘‘ species,” that it 
seems desirable for me in their case to give a translation of 
- Dr. Focke’s. BOS 

ysl He pt W. & N.?, R. dentatus Blox. ‘‘ (R. glandulosus 
and R. hybridus inion. mult.).--St. only indistinctly angled near 
the top, glaucous, sparse ely hairy, densely clad wit unequal weak 
prickles, glandular bristles and stalked glands. L. 3-nate. Lis. 
almost equal in size, light green, rather evenly and finely serrate, green 
and hairy on both sides ; term, elliptic, with a lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate mucronate point. Inflorescence short; the lower branch- 
lets erect-patent, usually 3-flo wered; the upper straggling, 1- 
flowered; rachides and ped. hairy, with fine acicles, red. with 
numerous unequal- sabato glands and glandular bristles. Sep. em- 
bracing the young fr. alter flowering. Pet. narrow, spathulate, a. 
Stam - fully as ssdrte as the styles. Drupelets glabrous. Fr. small, 
sromati é." “Tn very few brai mble had Dr. ie ocke regia ‘is the form 


in springy gr und.” 

rof. Babington’ s fuller description in Brit. Rubi, down to the 
middle of p. 248, agrees admirably with this; as both do with 
Welsh specimens of mine, which Dr. Focke refers here as ‘‘ quite 


6 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


typical,” The 3-nate 1., with large, nearly equal, finely serrate 
lts., and the very short patent-branched, few-flowered pan., are the 
most characteristic features. 


long, finely aciculate. Stam. scarcely exceeding the styles. L. of 
the barren st. 3-nate and 45-nate-pedate. Lts. green and hairy on 
both sides, wnequally serrate ; term. 8-5 times longer than its stalk, 
yvate, cordate-ovate or oblong-obovate with emarginate base, cuspidate. 
Rather polymorphic ; chiefly distinguishable by the short stalk of 
the term. lt.” Mostly confined to wooded hills. Found in great 
quantity on the hills above Tintern, 


onm., by Rev. A. Ley, a 
small prostrate plant with very long Its. and a markedly flexuose 
short pan 

80. R. airrus W. & K.—« St. prostrate from a low base, more 
rarely climbing, roundish, only indistinctly angled near the top, 
more or less hairy, densely covered with stalked glands, glandular 
bristles and acicles. L. principally 3-nate; in strong shoots mixed 
with 5-nate ones. ts. coarsely and (in their upper part) often un- 


densely hairy on the nerves beneath; term. 3-4 times as long as its 


re 
varying in shape. Flowering branches not seldom sessile, many- 
flowered ; the normal ones, on the branches of the 2-year-old st., 


‘ ng, white. am. numerous, 
rather exceeding the styles. Fr. globular, with small drupelets, 
Very polymorphic and widely distributed . . . the type does not 
occur in the W. German ranges and Switzerland, but countless 
indefinable vars, and closely related forms are to be found.” 


Hug!. Bot. Suppl. to 8rd ed. pp. 117, 118.—St. deeply striate, hairy 
e@ qd lini selc] d ariclac) yal] rel; : 


* 


alrs; term. roundish elliptic, with short point. Pan.- 


with long points, ultimately clasping. 
form in thickets and bushy 
(where both pan. and lts, 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 7 


c. Rt. Kaltenbachii Metsch.—St. more angular and deeply striate, 
with fewer hairs and acicles, many stalked glands and subulate 
declining prickles. L. more frequently 5- aid Lts. narrower, 
vbovate-acuminate, almost simply dentate-serrate, but with the larger 
teeth patent or recurved, an, large, pyramidal, drooping, with 


e 
purplish black, stalked glands. Usually a handsome plant with showy 
fl. (Glost., Somers. 

R. pendulinus P. J. Muell. (Journ. Bot. 1886, p. 284) and R. 
velatus Lefr. (B. E. C. Rep. 1888, p. 211; 1889, p, 254) would 
perhaps be best kept out of our list for present. or 
seems hardly to differ from R. Bellardi except by its red styles, 
hairy carpels and 8-5-nate 1. The latter is nearer to A. hirtus, aud 
(as  seeoabed by the Rey. A. Ley’s Lyonshall specimen) has obo- 
vate lts. and a long, leafy, bemmea te pan. with pseudo-umbellate 
side branches and small pet 

Stalked glands of the = sunken, or at least shorter than 
the diameter of the e ped. 

81. Fie TE fos ae P, J. Muell., B. EF. C. Rep. 1888, p. 212; 
Eng!. Bot., Suppl. 3rd ed., p. 113. Sh sani 8 densely hairy, 
with many yt short) ee rhe and rery ete unequal, 


aciculate prickles and acicles. m . Lts. acutely serrate, 
green and hairy on both sides ; term: peed elliptic or Beacon 
acuminate, from nearly entire or subcordate base. either 


mply racemose or pseudo-umbellate-racemose below ; % he. sume- 


ple even in fr. tam. generally rather shorter th an the 
styles, longer in flat- county forms.’”’ Heathland nr. Sprowston, 
in considerable quantity. 

At first sight very like f. hirtus, ye one ee from it 
without difficulty by the far more hairy st., with its very slender 
aciculate prickles, and by the sunken, blackish, stalked glands on 


orf. ; 


2. R. orcocuapus Muell. & Lefv.? Rk. fusco-ater Ane ges 
(in part). ‘Near R. omalodontos Mall.” FT Plym. ; £ 
Rep. 1891, p. 832.—St. stout, roundish, cen striate, pai 

thinly clothed with very short hair and fairly many very short ils port 
stalked glands. Prickles declining, much compressed ; a few 

large. 1. mostly 5-nate-pedate. Lts. rather thick, thinly bars on 
both sides, grey-green beneath, finely serrate, all usually obovate- 
cuspidate ; term. broadly obovate-truncate vie? cuspidate or shortly 
ee gees -acuminate point, from narrow, emarginate or subcordate 
bas Pan. often long; oaks ultra- aislinv? part either wholly 
anemic with subsessile term. fl. and ong-pedicelled lateral fl., or 
with a few 2-3-flowered dieimodiel at the base of the racemose top ; : 


8 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


the axillary branches distant, long, chiefly racemose; all the 
creer and ped. grey-felted and hairy, with abundant sunken glands, 
asional stalked gland about equalling the hair, and rarely a 
ataied: sipped acicle or two; the prickles mostly few, slender, 
declini Sep. rather — pointed, = yrey, lousely reflexed in fr. 
Pet. sie os. obovate cesses ceeding the styles. Woods 
(Heref. and neighbouring countie Del 
Strongly recalling R. muer ona but with much hairier st. and 
pan., and totally different armatur 
bed Briggsit Blox, fi. prison B: J. Muell.? Journ. Bot. 


spi , 176 
lis. gibbous and lobed be low. Lite, finely but rather more doubl 
serrate, rounder and more acuminate; term. long-stalked, roundish 
ovate, acuminate, with deeply cordate base; lateral very similar. Pan. 
more branched and — ane above, with oe lts. like those 
of the st. Sep. mostly ng in fr. Henfield, Suss.; Bickleigh 
Vale, Dev. Latterly psa by sin Briggs as possibly only a 
very strongly marked abnormal fo 

e. R. Bagnalli Blox. Journ. Rot, 1878, pp. 175, 176.—-Very like 
var. b., but with somewhat slenderer and more declining subulate 
prickles, a good many 5-nate-pedate l. with all the Its. remarkubly 
similar, adr and less hairy; and a narrower pan., Which is less 
leafy above and has rather ae erect-patent, cake flowered 
branches. is several places in War 

These singular vars. seem (as Mr. Baker suggested in Journ. 
Bot. 1886, p. 75) to connect this group with R. dwmetorum W. &N. 


oup 9. Casm (= coryuironm Focke). — St. creeping 
climbing from a low arch, glaucous, roundish or Piet pide 


large slags Flowering early and lat 

xcept some of the plants tbs t go to make up the 
Scuregete 2 dumetorum (a link between the other Cxsm and the 
two p sett groups), this is a very natural group of closely 


reckoned with feiss V dandnlone brambles, as apparently suggested by 
Mr. W. now Lord de oy) in his paper in eg Bot. 1870 


arren 
or are better separated from each other and div ed between the 
KogBLERIANI and Cm 


“ 


- Warren’s lines) appears to me on 
st convenient. 

Ch iefly found in hedges and waste places and on walls Espe- 
elally shendgiet on clay and chalk soils, where, with R. rusticanus, 


* 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 9 


they usually prevail to the exclusion of most other species. Much 

r on gravel an 

83. R. pumerorum W. & N. Journ. Bot. 1870, pp. 149-154, 169 
-176.—St. usually somewhat angular and hairy, with numerous wn- 
equal (mostly weengy prickles and some (often many) acicles and 
stalked glands. 1. chiefly 5-nate-pedate. Lts. thick, acutely and 
often doubly serrate, green on both sides, paler and softly pubescent 
or a beneath, mvre or less acuminate and imbricate; bas. sub- 
sessile. Pa m d; rachis felted and hairy, usually very 
stronaly armed with unequal prickles, acicles and stalked glands. Sep. 

ey-felted, usually erect in fr., but sometimes only patent or loosely 
reflexed. Pet. large, roundish, hardly clawed, ablally overlapping. 
Stam. hese: styles. 

Separated from species of the Koraterrani and Bretarprant by 
the oe it bas. lts., large roundish pet. and large drupelets, and 
generally by a somewhat cesian aspect. Distinguished from other 
Casu pretty readily by the far more glandular and aciculate st. and 
pan.-rachis, and further to some extent by the more regular a 
more compound pan. ; but, it must be owned, the difficulty of ies: 
mination is sometimes serious enough, and is liable to be not a 


hybrid ise. 
The following appear to be the best marked of the English 
forms or vars. of this s species :— 
. ferow Weihe. R. horridus Schultz.—St. subglabrous, gre 
a good many acicles ‘and stalked glands (mostly short). ick 
very crowded on ma coma st., straight, much compressed, short-based, cen 
long slender points. L. almos t wholly 5-nate, broad. Term. It. 
roundish cbovate since eng stalhel, with truncate- -emarginate or 
entire base. Pan. usually short, and chiefly contracted into a rather 
broad rounded top, armed like the st. Sep. ovate, suddenly contracted 
into a long point, clasping in fr., grey-felted with white margin, 
Pet. usually pink. St. and pan. remarkably variable in stoutness 


+7 


ibuted. 
R. diversion (Lindl.)—Very like R. ferox, but with prickles 
less crowded, more unequal and longer based, the term. It. less roundish 
and more shortly coalbel, and so all the lts. more frequently 
imbricate; while the pan. is usually ‘‘ long, leafy nearly to the top, 
with very short — os flowered, subracemose branches, often 
springing from every @ the shoot.” The sep. also are ulti- 
mately reflexed 1 (though naenity erect for a time) jk the pet. white. 
Widely distributed, and locally abundant. &. intensus Blox. seems 
to be a small strongly armed state o 
. pilosus W. & N.—-All the stems hairy and strongly armed. 
Prickles subpatent, from compressed bases, long, rather slender, 
assing gradually into crowded acicles and stalked glands. Pan. 
leafy nearly to the top; axillary branches longer and more distant 
than in diversifolius, corymbose, many- flowered. Sep. loosely 


10 THE MYCETOZOA OF SOUTH BEDS AND NORTH HERTS) 


clasping or erect-patent. ‘‘The only member of the group with 
distinctly setose-hairy st.” Laie. — Warw. Apparently nearest 
to diversifolius, but unknown to m 
R. scabrosus (P. J. Muell.). "R. tuberculatus Bab.--St. bluntly 
ngular, striate, slightly hairy, with fewer and inconspicuous acicles 
and stalked glands, a ickles less unequal, with stouter cushion-like 
bases. L. edate, dou ly dentate-serrate. Term. lt. 
roundish elliptic ot railed short point ; bas. (of 3-nate 1.) bilobate. 
an. with corymbose-truncate ultra-axillary top and few-flowered 
ascending axillary branches. Sep. loosely clasping. Pet. pinkish. 
Appa are nes saagrart widely distributed, but variable 
conct aker.—St. rather slender, striate, with few hairs 
ae very ele: armature; the long prickles and larger acicles with 
broad compressed bases, the stalked owls and small acieles few. 
L. chiefly 8-nate. Lts. dark green above, much paler beneath, 
usually smaller and more finely and requarly serrate than in the other 
orms ; term. roundish ovate or somewhat obovate- chaoabeldal 
with very slender cuspidate-acuminate point. Pan. elongate, con- 
iaaeny: serene rather closely felted, with narrow ultra-axillary 
top and long distant patent-erect branches below. Sep. patent or 


loosely reflex Pet. smaller, pi maller, neater, more 
felted and less prickly than dive) a ‘approaching much neare 
to corylifolius, lee still = more glandular, and wie different 


A well- 
marked form, a all events as o occurs in Derb. "Chiefly nde eeH: 
so far as I have been abe to observe 


(To be oy 


Taz MYCETOZOA or SOUTH BEDS ann NORTH HERTS. 
By James SaunpErs. 


In continuation of the papers on the flora of South Beds which 
have appeared in this Journal at intervals for the last ten years, 
the following list of Mycetozoa is given as a first instalment. The 
species observed in oe contiguous portions of Hertfordshire are 
also enumerated. Some hundreds o specimens have been os 
and a still larger ae have been observed in the field, but o 


two or three Stations at most are given for each county for we 
ubiquitous. forr 


a ‘he plasmodium of Badhamia pallida Berk. is referred to by Rev. M. 

jer aie as having 8 been noticed by Badham at East Ber ergholt, in March, 1861 
(Trans. ae Soc. xxi. t. 19, p. 154). Examination of the e type specimen in the 
K gear ra proves this to be the same species as Badhamia inaurata 0 


THE MYCETOZOA OF SOUTH BEDS AND. NORTH HERTS. LE: 


1892, on decayed branches in Caddington. Wood. The plasmodium 
3 pale yellow, sometimes showing a greenish hue when creeping 
yver a lichen-covered surface. It occurs in anastomosing veins, 

iti everal 


Physarum calidris, which fully confirms Mr. Lister’s former determ1- 
nation of this a as pe from the very scanty material to 

which he previously had acces 
All the twenty-seven Phin enumerated for Heath near beetles 
were collected by Miss L. Bassett and. Miss G. List These 
gatherings a the rare British species Dadhamia sahipincs and 
Reticularia Rozeana. The species in the following list marked C. C. 
were collected by Mr. C. Crouch, whose accurate and persistent 
e 


flowering and flowerless _ of S. Beds. The Hertfordshire 
species marked A. E.G. have been obtained by Mr. A. E. Gibbs 
F.L.S.; those marked H.E.S. yo Mr. H. E. Seebo hm. Nor 
should I omit to notice the efforts of my son, who has not only 
been successful in our joint exentsions, but also in those he has 
taken independently. ‘‘ Comm ” applies to both ene when 
no time of fruiting is named, the abide year is inten 

As a guarantee of accuracy in naming, it need vet be said that 
all specimens on which a record is based have been examined by 
Mr. A. Lister, or by his daughter, Miss G. Lister, to both of whom 

my thanks are due for their valuable assistance. Mr. Lister has 

also kindly read this aire in MS., and has added one or two 
localities. Voucher specimens of most t of wee rarer forms have 
been Gioaced for the British Museum Herbariu 

Ceratium hydnoides A. & 8. gona Herts. 

Physarum poe OPES (Fr.). 

P. nutans Pers. (Tilmadoche ins > ak ). Luton Hoo, Beds ; 
Hitchin and Gadaaipiot Herts. 

P, viride Pers. (Tilmadoche mutabilis Rost.). Heath, Stopsley, 
Luton Hoo, Beds; Kensworth, Herts. 

P. compressum A. S. Luton Hoo; Hitchin Soren and 
piaemodicene forms from dirty white plasmodium, H. E. 

P. calidris List. Very rare. (See Journ. Bot. 1891, " 258). 


‘ ting in summer. 

Craterium vulgare Dit, Heath, stone pie are Beds. ; 
Hitchin, Herts. Fruiting in summer autu 

C. leucocephalum (Pers.) Rost. Pappewiodk: “Pottery, Beds. 
Fruiting in autumn. 

Leocarpus fragilis (Dicks.) ripe eens ani pee: and Peppet- 
stock Woods. Fruiting in summer and autum1 

Fuligo septica (Link) Gmel. Kitchen tind (C. C.), Luton Hoo, 
Beds. 


12 THE MYCETOZOA OF SOUTH BEDS AND NORTH HERTS. 


— panicea (Fr.) Rost. Luton Hoo; Hitchin. Fruiting 
in summ 
B. hy one o- ) Berk. Heath, Caddington, Beds. Fruiting 
in summer and winter. 
. utricularis (Bull. ) Berk. (plasmodium full yellow). Heath, 
Caddington. 
B; —— sea Rost. Heath. Fruiting in winter. 
urr. ( 


B. inaura plasmodium pale yellow). “Caddington, rare. 
Fruiting i in wine. 

Didym icrocarpon (Fr.) Rost. Kitchen End (C.C.). Fruiting 
in ata 


me ik & 8.) Fr. Sundon, Luton Hoo, Kitchen 
Bnd (c. ) \, Cmte Hitchin (H.E.8.), Ayers End (A. E.G.), Herts. 
Fruiting in summer and autumn. 
D. _— Schrad. Heath. Fruiting in — subd winter. 
D. pertusum Berk. Clophill, Beds. Fruiting in au 
Dinvirodohe difforme a ) Rost. Heath, Ba Hitchin. 
Fruiting in autumn and winte 
C. testaceum (Schrad.) Boek (first British record). Stopsley, 
ee arpa in summer 
m (Linn.) Rost. Heath, Pepperstock. Fruiting in 
aan 
Lepidoderma tigrinum (Schrad.) Rost. Heath. Fruiting in winter. 
Stemonites a a Roth. Heath, Luton Hoo, Sundon, Beds; 
Kensworth, Her 
8. Gerlginan (Bhrh.). Chalton, Pepperstock, Kitchen End. 
Fruiting in summer 
Comatrichia tiiphina (Roth.) Rost. sey pms srt Stopsley ; 
Hitehin (H. E.8.). Fruiting in summer and a 
. Friesiana De Bary. Heath, Leagrave, Ceapenan ll Ayers 
End (A. E.G.). Fruiting in summer and autumn 
_ Lamproderma physarvides (A. & 8.) Rost. Heath. Fruiting in 


L. irideum (Cke.) Mass. Hitch 

Enerthenema — (Pers. Yt ‘Rost. Caddington, Luton Hoo. 
Fruiting in sum 

Tubulina cylindri ica (Bull.) DC. Kitchen End (C.C.). Fruiting 
in summer. 

Enteridinin token (Ehr.). Heath. Fruiting in winter 

oe oe aoe ) Nees. Luton Hoo, Chalton. Fr uiting 
in summer and autum 

Cribraria ‘diaatines Schrad. and C. argillacea Pers. ese aig 
slate coloured). Heath, Luton Hoo. Fruitin g in spring and su 

Ret pecs lycoperdon Bull. Luton Hoo. Fruiting in summer. 
: na Rost. (See Journ, Bot. 1891, 263). Heath. Fruiting 
in spri os 
Trichia fallax Pers. Heath, Sundon, near Luton, Luton Hoo 

T. fragilis (Sow.) Rost. ‘Heath, alba Bricket Wood, 
Ayers End (A. E.G.), Herts. Fruiting i in autum 
'  . seabra Rost. Sewell, Beds. Fruiting in phic umn. 

I’. varia Pers. Heath, near Luton, Leagrave. Fruiting in 


TWO NEW BRITISH RUBI. 18 


autumn. — v. nigripes. Wheathampstead, Herts. Fruiting in 
spring. 
T. contorta (Dit.) Rost. Rare. Caddington, Beds. Fruiting 
in spring. 

T. affinis De Bary. Heath, Sundon, near Luton ; a 
stead, Harpenden, Kensworth, Ayers End (A. E G.). Fruiting 1 
spring. 

T. Jacktt Rost. Heath, Pepperstock, near ey someone and 
Zouches Woods, Herts. Fruiting in autumn and w 

Pr foricka. ‘flagellifer (B. & “Br r.) Rost. Thesis: Fruiting in 
winter. 

Hemiarcyria eee pice Rost. Kitchen End (C.C.), 
Barton Springs, Beds. ting in spring an autumn. — Var. 
Neesiana. Barton Spriniges: a Feniliels in autumn. 

H. intorta List. Hitchi 

H. clavata (Pers.) Rost. "Wheathampstead. Fruiting in spring. 

A mas nat Pers. Common. Frui in in autumn. 


summer. 
A. incarnata Pers. ee spare — Caddington, Beds ; 
ee Herts. Fruitin utum 

oo ans (Bull.) Grev. “Caddiagtia Luton Hoo. Fruiting in 
sum 

“y ‘hse Sauter. Heath. Fruiting in winter 

Lycogala epidendrum (Buxb.). Luton Hoo, Kitchen End (C.C.), 
Sharpenoe, Beds. Fruiting in summer 


The sent etge A iaiuee were oe in the New Forest, 
Hants, August, 1 

Physarum asap Fr. 

Stemonitis ferruginea Kbrh. var. microspora. 


Trichia fallax Per 

Lycogala poet ay um Buxb. 

The Hants notes having been made after a long period of dry 
weather, will account for the fewness of the species, The list 
would doubtless be largely extended if a visit to the same locality 
were made in the autumn or winter The most noteworthy record 
is that of Stemonitis — on which see note by Mr. A. Lister 
in Journ. Bot, 1891, 2 


TWO NEW BRITISH RUBI. 
By rue Rev. Aveustin Ley, M.A.. 


Rubus acutifrons, n. sp. — References: Botanical Exchange 
Club Reports, 1890, p. 294; 1891. pp. 331, 352; sub nomine fi. 
Lintoni Focke.—Stem, when growing in open woods, forming a low 


14 TWO NEW BRITISH RUBI. 


lobate in the upper half, with long. acuminate point. Ordinar 


pointing teeth. Petioles with many slender acicles stalked 
glands, few slender declining prickles, and short. hair. Stipu 
short. linear, fringed with stalked s. Panicl , com- 
pound, very lax but with the flowers remarkably aggregated ; lower 
ches racemose-corymbose, interm cymose or pseudo- 
umbellate ; corymbos : 8S Wavy, any slender 


ve. . Rae 
deflexed prickles, stalked glands and patent hairs, especially in the 
upper part; slightly felted, but not grey with felt. Sepals ovate 
cuspidate-acuminate, clothed and coloured like the rachis, dark, 
with pale margins, strongly ascending after the petals fall, Petals 


Habitat.—Woods. Not noticed in hedges, or in the open 
country,  Loealities—Rigg’s Wood, Sellack ; Coldborough Park 
Wood, Yatton; H: ood, Mordiford ; Belmont Woods, Here 


radius of ten or twelve miles: the plant is abundant, and retains 
its characters well in each of them. I have had it under observation 
now for five seasons. 

From the above description it will be seen that this plant 
approaches f, Lintoni Focke, especially in the shape of the leaves, 
and the iba clothing of the rachis. I considered it to be R 


Lintoni whe t found it; and a reference to the Exchange 
Club Reports will show that Prof. Babington partly concurred in 
this opinion. The resem lance, however, is main d 


series of this plant, submitted to Dr. Focke in the autumn 
of 1892, elicited from him the following remarks, which he has 
kindly allowed me to make publie :— 

" yus sent agrees very well indeed with a plant I have 
Besides the difference of colour in 
the petals, I see not the least appreciable difference. I think, there- 
fore, that I know the plant, but I know no name... In my 

ynopsis Rub, Germ., published in 1877, I mentioned it (p. 861) 
under R. Betckei; but as that is a very local and little known form 
which has not been identi i 
will not be advisable to make use of this name,” 

oe e Rev. W, M. Rogers Suggests an affinity in our plant to R, 
tiridis Kalt,; and in this suggestion Dr. Foeke concurs, 


"WO NEW BRITISH RUBI. 15 


' Rubus ochrodermis, n. sp.—feferences: Botanical Exchange 
Club Reports, 1889, pp. 257, 258; 1890, p. 294; 1891, p. 330.— 


often branching, ochreous, becoming dark brown-red in exposure, 
bluntly angular, striate, hairless or nearly so. Prickles many, un- 


r 

axillary part, and long ascending racemose branches below 

ternate or single, much like those of the stem but more coarsely 
8 


xternally, 
acicles and plentiful stalked glands, conspicuously grey-felted 
internally. Petals white or pinkish, narrow, il. Stamens 


LW 
ford; Wareham Wood, near Hereford. These stations all lie 
Herefordshire, and within a radius of ten miles. Wood border at 


to any variation. Queried by Dr. Focke in 1885 (in lit,), ‘‘ mucro- 
matus Blox., I think’’; but upon insufficient and too advanced 
specimens. Upon a series of specimens submitted to him in the 
autumn of 1892, he notes, ‘A rewarkable form, unknown to me. 

Other opinions upon ant can be seen at the places 
referred to above; but after watching it in the growing state for 
seven or eight seasons, I can say with some confidence that it 
cannot without violence be brought under any of the plants whose 
names have been as yet suggested for it. 


16 FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA. 


I wish, in conclusion, to acknowledge the great assistance which 
I have received from the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers in drawing up the 
above descriptions. 


FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA NEW TO BRITAIN. 
By Freperick J. Hansury, F.L.S. 


(Concluded from vol. xxx., p. 370.) 


lis 
from the Misses Thompson, who have thoroughly worked up the 
Hieracium flora of the district, with the request that I would name 


commutatum Beck. x Eupatorrum Griseb. (?). — I have not 
personally seen the above in the fresh state, but, judging from the 


fine series of specimens recently given me by the Rey. Augustin 
Ley, have little doubt but that this determination will prove to be 


; Pp 

occupied some twenty yards of the hedgebanks, and there were 

many hundred specimens. It appeared distinct from both, yet 
: 


de, and slightly 
bosum, in the darker 


in the stem, which was less hairy. 
colouring of the whole plant, in the stiff whitish hairs of the stem, 


FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA. 17 


and the dark green involucre; the branches of the panicle less 
3 neta ; = at of the plant was about 2-3 ft., while that of 
ee 1-2 ft. m the above it will be seen that the 


leaves ny penn 3 the latter. It is suggested that it is a hybrid 
between the tw 
o the above remarks I would only add that there is no question 
as to its connection with H. commutatum 
boreale), cages the absence of crowding in the leaves, their harsher 
text ominent veining, and the less broadly heart-shaped 
characte er of those in the upper portion appear to me very dis- 
tinctive. The phyllaries, too, are rather longer and more acute, 
and, as far as I can judge from dried specimens, the styles are less 
livid, and the ligules of a deeper yellow than in H. commutatum, 
I am only sorry that Mr. Ley did not dry nate specimens of the 
two supposed parents, but coed “o can Sanat do another season ; 
the extraordinary range o tion in both species renders the 
acquisition of this sdaitional oiliedtss sii desirable. 
conleude this paper with brief references to several well- 
marked opie sete require further investigation before it would 
be wise to giv w names, distinguishing ‘them by letters Pane 
They are Bag of the closest afiontton and to most, I cann 
doubt, it will ultimately be found necessary to give specific ee 
varietal rank. For someI had already provided names, intending 
to publish them among the ste ile The prolonged frost of last 
winter, however, destroyed many of my most recently collected 
plants. Hieracia as a rule are hardy enough, but being recently 
moved and not having developed sufficiently long rootlets they were 
lifted out of the ground and killed, thus stopping for the present all 
further opportunity of studying their ate ~ite of comparing hehe 
other species grown under similar cond As they 
collected from widely sip ieated districts, I pan rely on the kind. 
ness of son Seer to replace some of my lost forms. 
: ed to the Rev. H. E. Fox for the only specimens 
I possess of a pla sent in August, 1890, from Dollywaggon 
Pikes, Cumberland. The notes I made on receiving the fresh 
specimens are insufficient to ipa Sn me to give a full description at 
present, but the following characters will serve to distinguish it 
pending further particulars. Stem from 15 to 20 inches high, 
both radical and cauline leaves rather anglicum-like, though the 
latter are stalked; but differing entirely from that species in the 
inflorescence. The heads, 3 to 7 or more in number, are borne on 
slender, arcuate, densely setose and sparingly floceose peduncles, 
the involucre is almost black with sete, the phyllaries long and 
very acute. The ligules are quite glabrous. In the stronger 
plants the radical leaves are coarsely and acutely ow at the 
base like those of the variety acutifolium of H. anglicum Fr. The 
stem, whilst appearing glabrous, or nearly so, rs ah naked 
pear is scabrid with minute rough bristles and setw, and sparingly 
floccose. 
Journat or Borany.—Vou. 31. [Jan. 1898.] c 


18 FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA, 
A very interesting plant, found by Mr. H. C. Hart and 


myself in July, 1891, on the grassy banks of the Carrick River, Co. 
Donegal, scarcely above sea level. It appears to be intermediate 


e base, and the phyllaries so abnormall long, narrow and very 


acute, overtopping the y buds to the extent of making them 
appear nearly double their true length, that it is very doubtful if it 
e to that species at all. . Whi no further 


foliisque caulinis basi incisis, etc. Observatione maxime dignum!”’ 
d. A plant found by Dr. White at Loch Lubnaig, Perthshire, 
on the 27th August, 1891. Excepting that the involucres are very 


mens. The further discovery that some of Mr. Beeby’s Shetland 
Hae Hill, near Brae, are certainly 
. greatly strengthens the supposition 
Piet 18 one form occurring over a large portion of Great 
the Tai ary equally clear now that this must be separated from 

ain plant, and, should further investigation prove it to belong 


FURTHER NOTES ON HIERACIA. 19 


to H. buglossoides Arvet-Touvet, I shall gladly adopt this name; 
but if not, the name suggested above would be suitable 

Since the publication of the name H. caniceps in the last 
-esstery number of this Journal, I find that Norrlin has 
orestalled me in the use of thi I therefore suggest 
Hieracium rivale as a suitable substitute, having nearly always 
found the species by small rocky streams. I may here mention, as 
a coincidence, that Norrlin described a Hieracium under the name 
Hieracium proximum, a few weeks after my description of that 


euprepes there spoke of the peduncles as ‘ divaricate.”’ e 
are remarkably upright, and form a very acute angle with the axis 
in th ch specimens, but in some of the robust and dwarf 


Welsh plants, a drawing of one of which I had before me when 
writing, they are widely spreading. The close upright panicle, 


made this genus a special study, the number of new forms 
described may seem excessive. If, however, the careful work Mr. 


similar work done by a large number of our best critical botanists 
over much wider areas and during quite as many years, it will not 
appear surprising that a large number of new forms have been 


b 
say that even with this large accession of new names, I have many 
individual specimens for which it is.still difficult to find a resting- 


8 
To the list of kind friends enumerated at the beginning of this 
paper, I wish to add the name of Dr. W. A. Shoolbred, and to 
again thank all for their continued help during the past season. 
c2 


20 


SHORT NOTES. 


Do Narvrat Hysrips exist ?—I had overlooked the fact of Mr. 

C. B. Clarke’s having again agit to the hybrid question in the 
Journal for last November (p. 822), in his paper on Holoschenus 
Link. His first objection I deny; experimental proof has been 
furnished, in many cases. His second objection carries very much 
more weight ; but the question of what a subspecies is (supposing 
‘“‘subspecies’”’ to be —_ than an expression) complicates that 
part of the subject, and one hardly knows what one has to meet. 
T should not, for exam eahil cme as a hybrid the sapiviieg of a 
species and of a variety of that species. As bearing on this matter, 
I may perhaps be allowed to mention a striking object-lesson. 
While the Rev. E. F. Linton was staying with me last August, we 
found growing upon a railway-bank near Witley, Surrey, several 
plants ‘tntene a te between Verbascum nigrum and V. Thapsus; 
these two species occurring at the same spot. Now, I had carefully 
searched this same locality in vain for oe rig Sm in a 

and am certain that they did not then exist. He would be 

bold man who should — out the fe sopposed patents to 
be “subspecies ” of one aggregate; and I do not think that any 
unprejudiced person en doubt that the EE rsediate was the 
product of fertilisation between them. Why not, then, call them 
(what in point of fact they are) hybrids? Simila rly, I had 
allowed Epilobium lanceolatum and EF. roseum (besides ss other 
species) to spread rather freely in my garden. This summer there 
appeared for the first time two or three specimens _— Sealed 


ing for the phenomena. Had I found the plants in a wild condition, 
the evidence would doubtless have been rhe “satisfactory ; ; but I 
should have felt justified, by a somewhat intimate acquaintance 
wi e two species, in naming them as above. I may add that 
the true species always retain their individoaity, | and can, when 
once known, be distinguished at a glance.—Epwar HAL 


Sanrx Moorzt, Lond. Cat., iw Forrarsume.—In connection with 
Messrs. Linton’s paper on Scottish willows (Journ. Bot. 1892, 
58), I me ae that , which I collected in 


CaREX RHYNCHOPHYSA IN eon i «= Lloyd Praeger has 
been fortunate enough to add this well-marked species to our 
Flora; he found it last August in coanky Armagh. A description 
and plate will appear in our next number 


ASPLENIUM LANCEO Kerr came across a fair 
maount of this fern last wicatiod: not dae an the village of Camp, 


SHORT NOTES. 21 


Tralee Bay, the locality being about a mile from the sea. This is 
most probably an addition to the Flora of Kerry; for though the 


ivee 
castles last summer failed to discover the plant, while Mr. 
More tells me he has seen no previous pa a Stesae— ie en sari 
intermingled with A. Adiantum-nigrum. lan see 
unaccountably rare in Ireland, its only oie pence locality 
jon about Kinsale, Co. Cork.—— - W. Se 


Ro Thi 
at a time when little was known of Drejeri in og and a 
good description was not available. Mr. Rogers has since informed 
me that the plant in question must certainly go to R. fuscus 
Readers are aaa to make this correction in their 
copies of the Journal._—Jam HITE 


SS) HIRE Rusi.—Lit us MA as wie i at the brambles of this 
county since Leighton worked at them; consequently, with the 
advance made since his day in he knowledge of the tg there i . 


In 
ome wood, called Vales Wood, near Ruyton XI owns I tant 
ver a dozen erent Rubi, including A. opacus Focke, growing 
vary oe from 3-7 ft. ee: R. ere: Genev., R. Pyne 


n mis- 
taken for Weihe and Nees’ plant ; and I understand that Leighton 
was in frequent ocifintateses nent Bloxam over Rubi, when pre- 
paring the county Flora. Fok a similar reason I may state that I 
found R. villicaulis Koehl., near Crosemere ; the plant so named in 
the Flora having probably been R. pyramidalis Kalt. The Mere 
district does not seem to be at all rich in brambles, eae in one 
paee a sandy piece of waste land between Crosemere and ti 
where besides R. villicaulis, R. plicatus, R. fissus, and som 
osha flourished, including a plant Gene to R. ip aliiccoms 
Gelert, for which I have no name.—Epwarp F. Linton. 
THE supposED ASPLENIUM ACUTUM FROM THE Mourne Movn- 

aIns.—The recent paper on the botany of these paar oe: 
referred to at p. 31, contains the following interesting note :— 

“* Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum var. y. acutum Bory.—In a dark cave 
among the mountaing of Mourne ogres Herb. Oxon. ; also Ri 
Synopsis (Filia minor longifolia, &c.). We are glad to ‘be able ‘to 
correct an error of long s standing i in regard to this fern. The plant 
which was collected by Sherard in the Mourne Mountains in 1694, 
and of which fronds are preserved in the Herbarium Sloaneanum in 
the British Museum, and the Sherardian herbarium at Oxford, was 
not an Asplenium, but a beautifully-divided plumose barren form 


22 SHORT NOTES. 


of Athyrium Filia ne closely resembling the form known t 
pteridologists as Kalothrix. The frond in Herb. Sloaneanum Sask 
00, p. 52) [sent by Sherard] is figured in Plukenet’s Phytographia 
(p. [t.] 282, fig. 8), and described by Petiver in = Sarge 
(p. 250), the locality of West Indies, which is given on the page 
mentioned, being corrected in the Mantissa (p. 78, a 4) to ‘ex 
Hibernia.’ Ray (Historia ler. vol. ill., p. 79, 1704) gives 
the mountains e Mourne, in Co. Down, as the place where the 
specimen above Reha was obtained, Plukenet’s figure an 
description being quoted. In the third edition of Ray’s Synopsis 
(1724) the editor, Dillenius, ee (p. 127) that the fern may be 
cave-grown form o tes en m Adiantum m-nigrum, oe view is 


ich 
longifolia.’ With yee to the specimen in the She rardian 
herbarium at Oxford, Mr. G, C. Druce kindly informs us that it 
labelled, Henn in ye mountains of Mourne in ye county o of 


mens, and probably of nearly contemporaneous date. Sibthorp, 
when — at Oxford (1784-1795), labelled this specimen 
Aspleni Adiantum-nigrum L. The British Museum specimen, 
which '. Ll. P. [Mr. Praeger] has examined, is practically 
OI with the Kalothrix form of Athyrium —— Samina, and with 

xford specimen. Professor Vines writes ‘I have compared 
the enclosed (a cultivated frond of Kalothrix) with the Sherardian 
specimen from the Mourne Mountains, and have no hesitation in 
saying that they are identical, excepting the differences that are to 
be referred to the fact that one plant is wild and the other culti- 
vated. The Sherardian specimen is certainly ‘ Kalothriz,’ i,e., & 
barren plumose form of Athyrium Filix-femina.’’ 


Hieractum Sommerrentn Lindeb., var. tactum (Journ. Bot. 1892, 
367). This form should, in my opinion, be treated as a separate 
species. My cultivated specimens remain practically indistinguish- 
able from the wild ones, but differ ie! materially from Perthshire 
H. Sommerfeltii, grown side by side with them, and from Lin 
berg’s types. When the Seacrest of the granitic hills of Scotland 
have been thoroughly examined (which is at present very far from 
—— e case), Thave little doubt that this plant _ be found 

im various parts of the country.—Epwarp ase 


AGURUS ovaTUS IN JERsey (Journ. Bot. ee 877). —I 
notice that Lagurus ovatus ig oor as an addition to the J ersey 
Flora. I found it in the sa e locality in 1877, and recorded it in 
Science Gossip. Subsequently I found that it owed its origin to the 
misplaced zeal of a botanist who scattered seed of this pretty 
Guernsey grass on the sands near St. Ouen’s bay. ere was a 
good patch of it when I saw it, which was, I .deliers, the year after 
the seed had been sown.—G. Cnaaing. Dru 


SEEDLINGS. 82 


New Witts Puants.—The following additions to the Flora o 
Wilts have been verified. > am responsible for the localities 
against which no name is plac 

New for the County. ~aiereniien 1 collinun, established at 2, near 
Devizes, Lev. A.C. Smith. Rubus adscitus, 11, East Knoyle; Pyrus 
communis, 5, Grimstead ; 11, tos mre Senecio aquaticus b. 
pinnatifidus, 5, Clarendon. Carduus crispus var. litiyiosus, 10, 
Whadd ampanula rapunculoides established at 8, Godford, for 
i of twenty years; origin unknown; Ff’. O. Earney. Cal- 

na Erica a. glabrata, 5, Grimstead, Harney; b. incana, 5, Grim- 
rate Earney. Gentiana ‘Paauninenths, 6, Pitton, Miss Henderson. 


germanica, 11, Mere Down, Rev H. Linton. Mentha sativa 
a. rivalis, 2, 8. Wraxall, - C. pier “4 Heytesbury. b. paludosa, 
5, Grimstead. M. gentil tensa d. Melissa officinalis estab- 


lished at 5, Whitopaiades: * a Sneha, 2, Clyffe Pypard. Rev. 
E.. H. Goddard ; 5, Gchostand a; Durnford ; 10, Broad Chalke ; 
owle. EHpipactis media, 5, Grimstead, Henderson. Juncus 
compressus, 8, Codford, Harney. Agropyron repens b. barbata, 4, Ham 
and se ilto n Foliat, Druce. Piluwaria globulifera, 6, Hamptworth. 
yew for Wilts, North.— Fumaria densiflora, hi near Chilton 
Pola Druce. Myposotis eases 4, ee Foliat, Druce. M. 
ensis b. umbrosa, 2, Bishopstone, 
sero for Wilts, South. Nanri stein; 10, Britford, arciin s 
Medicago denticulata, 5, Farley, Henderson (in confirmation of : 
Bot.). Vicia Bobartii, 10, Alderbury. Rosa spherica, 6, Clateti: 
don; 9, Semley, Rev. W. M. Rogers. Bartsia Odontites a. verna, 
_ 6, Milford; 7, Stratford. b. serotina, 5, Grimstead; 6, Ford; 7, 
; i Kno 


specially indebted to Mr. J. G. Baker, Mr. Arthur Bennett, and 
the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, for critical help in naming.—Epwarp 
J. Tatum 


Rosa rnvotuta Sm., iv Somerser.—In June last I fortunately 
found aie bushes of this rose, which I had never gathered before, 
in a field-hedge not far from Dulverton. It is believed that the 
plant had not been previously observed in the county of Somerset, 
although recorde a in ah ihe Sat Botany for both divisions of 
Devonshire.—James W. Wut 


SEEDLINGS. 


i isie bi to our Knowledge of Seedlings. By the Right Hon. 
Sir Jonn Lussoox, Bart., M.P., &c. London: 18 892. Kegan 
Paul, Treas. Triibner & Co. 8vo , Vol. L., pp. viii, 608 ; Vol. 
IL., pp. 646. With 684 figures in ‘the text. Price £1 16s. 


We have our ‘‘ Genera Plantarum,” our Prodromi, and ma 


ny 
monographs besides, but these deal only with the plant that has 
reached maturity. There are also divers works and papers more or 


24 SEEDLINGS. 


include descriptions of individua ention some particular 
phase of t ubject; but hitherto we d no general 
systematic account of the early stages in the life of flowerin 


Pp 
are nearly 1200 containing descriptions of the seedlings, and often 
also of the seeds an minati i 


arrangement of which the author has adopted. A copious biblio- 
graphy occupies 40 pages, and to complete the whole is a full index 
of all the species referred to in the text. 

To botanists who frequent the Linnean Society or read its 
Journal, the introduction will already be familiar. It consists in 
fact of several of the author’s papers already published by the 
Society, now revised and arranged in one chapter, and a very 
interesting one it makes. In it Sir John discusses at some length 
the form and size of cotyledons and attempts to explain their great 
variety by corresponding variations in the shape of the seed, or diffi- 
culties in the way of escape during germination. 

ome may question the value of these explanations, at any rate 
as regards the general principle that the form of the cotyledon is 
eae by the form of the seed and its arrangement or position 
¢ erein Bt Yee o ° 41 rae ay pee Se 1: ¢¢ ya aes ar 


the cotyledons and not only the adult leaves of the plant, but in many 
cases also those immediately following the seed-leaves, and so 
extended a series of observations bearing on the subject cannot but 
be welcome. The forms of cotyledons are, as Klebs observes, and 
as anyone may see by glancing through the present work, on the 
whole much simpler than those of the later leaves, and Klebs 


characteristic of the species in bygone ages, a more generally 
applicable explanation is that applied by Goebel to stipules, namely, 
that they are “ simplifi y arrest.”’ en, however, we consider 
the multifarious duties of the cotyledon, sometimes serving merely 
as a storehouse of food-material for the growing seedling, some- 
times as an organ for bringing into solution and absorbing the 
highly condensed and often comparatively insoluble food-stuff of the 


like Streptocarpus, Cyc ,» and many of the Qnagraries, assuming 
the size, form and importance of an ordinary foliage-leaf—whe 
take 18 Into consideration, we must surely admit that the 


universal foliage of deciduou 


time had differentiated them into their present varied forms.”’ Sir 
John does at any rate show evidence that in ce tain cases certain 


SEEDLINGS. 95 


causes and effects are co-related; that, for instance, an emarginate 
or lobed cotyledon is often coincident with a smaller or greater in- 
growth at the chalaza; that narrow cotyledons are often present, 
where for some reason there is not an easy exit from the seed; and 


in the endosperm, they would probably have never got free, but 
been torn from the axis, as does actually happen in a species of 
dnona figured on p. 104. Even supposing that many of the 
theories were not wonderfully suggestive, and that every explana- 
tion were untenable, we should still have about a thousand pages 


each family is an so toduaboree Seay in which are described the 
forms of fruit, seed and embryo occurring therein, and also of the 
cotyledons observed among the seedlings. Where possible, both 


Chaeuhes oe heiri, Al aie Ded at Hesperis nivea, Conringia 
perfoliata, Camelina sativa, Biscutella didyma, Lepidium graminifolium 
and spinosum, Iberis corifolia and wee tenella; and with slight 
modification, dithionema gracile and Iberis Lagascana ; the second 
type with bro ad and emuarginate cotyledons is ‘almost as widely 
distributed catch eon the Order 
Fundamental differences sometimes occur, even between species 
of a genus. Thus ere is a striking contrast between ogi 
of a hypogeal and epigeal nature: in the former they are fleshy, 
PSR and fill the seed in which they cuales serving merely 
as a store of food for the wabrie © seedling, while in the latter 


green, and loo and penaxe like an ordinary eaf. Clematis recta, 


leading types: seedlings with et and seedlings with sub- 
terranean cotyledons ; Rhus Thunbergiana is a good example of the 
latter, and Rhus typhina of the former. The same is noticed 
among the Ph aseolew, where the genera Phaseolus and Hrythrina 
both supply species illustrative of each class; but here the aerial 
cotyledons are not strictly foliaceous, remaining pale and fleshy and 
often turned to one side of the stem. ‘The horse-chestnut is in- 


26 SEEDLINGS. 


teresting in this respect. Asa rule, when the cotyledons remain 
in the seed, the hypocotyl is undeveloped and the seed remains 
on or beneath the soil; moreover, the first few leaves are reduced 
to scales, and it is not until the stem has reached a fair height that 
spreading foliage-leaves are produced. In the horse-chestnut, 
however, the hypocotyl grows considerably, carrying up the seeds 
from which the fleshy cotyledons do not escape, while the first pair 
of leaves are digitately five-foliolate, though it is hard to say 
whether, as Sir John suggests, the growth of the hypocotyl is 
acne by the high development of the first leaves, or 
r the igh development results from the elevated position in 

bie. ig t and ai 
shar peculiarities in germination are figured or 
ieastiied. ok sketch of Medicago orbicularis shows nine seedlings 
emerging from a single —— eyes _~ and twelve to sixteen 
ne fruit are not in- 
panini the competition must be 
\ equally severe in Yetragonia, wher wh 
~ the fruit also fails to burst, and t 


germination, when the radicle pierces 
the lower valve, while the upper is 
raised by growth of the hypocotyl and 
w) cotyledons. In the Brazil nut (Ber 
tholletia ‘iit and the nearly allied 
Lecythis Zabucajo, there is some doubt 
as to the nature of the fleshy undivided 
mass which fills the large seed; from 
a comparison with other genera its 
homology with the hypocotyl is in- 
ferred, the plumule being borne at one 
end and the radicle at the other; the 


the plumule and radicle emerge re- 
speedo from opposite ends of the 
eed. In Valerianew and Dipsacee, 
waiare the solitary seed never leaves 
the — the latter is pinned to the 
soi ing germination by growth of 
the padicls through the epigynous in- 
Hn a further purchase is often 
1. a swelling in the h 
Scabiosa atroprpure, Germina- cotyl (ef. fe. 1), whisk: mowers ti 
caucasica, seems to have lost 
its function, as it also penetrates the membranous involucel. The 


peg which keeps the fruit beneath the soi cabiosa australis 
vividly recalls that described by M. Flahault in seve ucur- 
itaces, and figured by Darwin in the Movements of Plants (p. 102, 


SEEDLINGS. 27 


fig. 62). Dipsacus ferox has a very similar fruit, 
but no hypocotyledonary peg ; and it was found 
that 98 to 100 per cent. of the seedlings carry up 
the fruit in germination (fig 2). 

A subject full of interest is the growth of the 
cotyledons after emerging from the seed. Often 
they remain sm d insignificant and soon 
perish; in other cases they may grow con- 
siderably, as for instance in Crucifers like the 
radish or cabbage, but still retain more or less of 
their original shape, and show not the slightest 
relation to the form or appearance of the later 
eaves. In some Cucurbitacee and a number of 
Crucifere, the cotyledons, though entire in the 
seed, beco 


——o 


apparently sometimes due to a group of water ita seit 
stomata at the apex, which causes there a retar- Germination. x 3. 
dation of growth compared with that of the base 

and sides. This is the case in Sisymbrium officinale and also in 
Galium Aparine (fig. 3) and G. saccharatum. 


Fic. 3. 
Galium Aparine. A, young seedling. B, a few days older. x2. 
Very e are cases like Gunnera chilensis and Loasa, where the 
cotyledons, though totally different in form, possess in the one case 
the pubescence and ciliation, in the other the stinging hairs so 
characteristic of the leaves; the stellate scales of Hleagnus and 
Hippophaé appear directly above the cotyledons, and in Eleaynus 
angustifolia invade their petioles. In Sarraceniacex the cotyledons 


28 SEEDLINGS, 


after germination increase “soso in meted in eis to their 
width, while the reverse obtai me Crucifers ; in the Crassu- 


are also succulent like the lea In some species of Elaocarpus 
(inate) the — grow considerably thus, in F. oblongus 
they ar about 6 cm. long and 2°5 em. wide near the aes larger 
in fact thar the leaf felioetnits ; they are —_ Mra persistent, like 
the true leaves, which they resemble in appea 

But the most interesting and peculiar case of subsequent growth 
is that which obtains in several genera of Onagraries, especially 
Clarkia (fig. 4), Eucharidium, and some species of (nothera, 


El Fem 
SSS 


Fie. 4, 
Clarkia pest ear _ Seedling 17 da 1d. 
ys o x 2. The original cotyledon is 
easily distinguished at the apex of the subsequent growth. é 


where an intercalary growth supervenes at the b f 
Pitcore » Which ine bi ogee nth venes at the base of the original 
alli 


; d 
Ler leaves, The eietanl sks ito remains almost unchanged 
a ee apex , from which it is sometimes 


s b uch 
ies leaf, and the single sobyheiien: of 


Cyclamen behaves in the same w sh 
way, while the hypocotyl becomes 
pe well-known, fleshy, persistent rootstock, i shoes @ quite 


exceptional cases an after- 
growth brings out a rela- 
- tion not previously manifest 
between the seed-leaves and 


iflora 5), 
especially where the latter 


ouerneicrele as seen in the 

ure 
ledons are ‘pe Beard in 
i first 


reduced to phyllodes. 

we may call 
attention to the marked 
difference between the coty- 
ledons and fir st leaves re- 


garis) (fig. 6), and the Bard- 
field Oxlip (P. elatior) (fig. 
7). 


These few examples 
must suffice to give an idea 
of the scope of the-book and 
the amount of information 


a) 
oo 
m 
oO 
aT 
<4 
oO 
i} 
wn 
er 


ried o fain 
admit that cotyledons aad 
their ways are very W 
derful, while the asians 


SEEDLINGS, 


Fie. 6. 
Primula vulgaris. 


Seedling, 


nat. size. 


Fie. 7. 


Primula elatior. 


29 


SeedTing, nat. size. 


\7r 


80 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


student will welcome, perhaps not a solution,—that, we fear, is 
still a great way off,—yet a solid contribution towards the means 
for solution of the problem involved in the form of the seed-leaves 
and its relation to those which follow 

A. B. Renpte. 


ARTICLES oH JOURNALS. 


Annals - ieee “Hag ).—C. A. Barber, ‘Nematophycus Storriei,’ 
sp. n. (2 plates).— Peale: : Developmen of frond of Champia 
parvula Acree the Carpospore (1 plate).—-K. Goebel, ‘ The simplest 
form of Moss’ (1 plate.)—-T. Johnson, ‘ Stenogramme interrupta’ 
(1 Ope). <q B. any, ‘A drift-seed Lote tuberosa)’ (1 ome 

‘ Cause of a hsamppcen action at a distan 
Gran Thorns of Randia etorum. _Td., ; Minsteons Swat ar 
Nelumbium.’—-Id., ‘ “ul of Petrosavia.’—J. ©. Willis, ‘ Distri- 
bution of seed in 

Bot. Cent aie “Gos, Sy — W. Scharf, ‘ Beitrige zur 
Anatomie ier Hypoxideen’ (No. 50).—F. Hock, ‘ Begleitpflanzen 
der Buche’ (No. i Hars sgirg, . Neue biologische Mit- 


theilungen.’ (No. 52).—T. Loesener, ‘ Zur Mateangelegenheit.’ 


a , Magazine (Tokio) —(Nov. 10). Millettia purpurea 
Yatabe, 

Bot. Notieer (haft. 6).—B. Jonsson, ‘Inre blodning hos vaxten.’ 
—-R. Sernander, ‘ Ytterligare nagra ord om substratets hetydelse 
for lafvarne.’—— . Kindberg, Timmia arctica, sp. 0 

Bot. Zeitung (Nov. 25, Dec. 18).—H. Rehsteiner, ‘Zur Entwick- 


: lungsgeschichte der Frucht- oe einiger Gastromyceten 


Gardeners’ Chronicle (Dec. 10).—Costus unifolius N. E. Br r., 0. 8p. 
(Dec. 17). Disa Povehe Kranzlin, sp.n.— (Dec. 24). Asystasia 
varia N. E. Br., 

Trish Naturalist (Dee. 1).—G. E. Barrett-Hamilton & OC. B. 
Moffatt, ‘ Characteristic Plants of Wexford.’ 


Journal de 
remarques sur le genre Myriotrichia.’—(Dee. 15 . H. Au ua, ‘ ang 
gonatum et Auliconema.’—Hue, ‘Lichens de Canisy.’—(Dee. 15). 

e Lagerheim & N. Pato uillard, ‘ Sirobasidium, nouveau genre 
a Hymenomyeties hétérobasidigs 

Journ. R. aes oscopical Soc. an W West, ‘ Algw of English Lake 
District’ (2 plates). 

Midland atti (Dec.).-W. Mathews, ‘County Botany of 
Worcester’ (cont.) 

Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Dec.).—P. Ascherson, ‘ Zur Pager eos 
der Kinwanderung von Galinsoga parviflora. —E. Halacsy 
‘ Beitrige zur Flora der Balkanhalbinsel’ [Rebbiaplelice Thasius, 
sp. n.), (conel.).—A. v. Degen, ‘ Campanula lanata Friy.’-— L. 


_Adamovie, ‘ Beitrage zur Flora yon Siidostserbien 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


Tue Botanical Gazette for November reprints from the Journal 
of American Folk-lore a long and interesting list of popular 


OBITUARY. 81 


American plant-names, compiled from various. trustworthy sources 
y Mrs. Fannie D. Bergen. It is intended as a preliminary to a 
complete collection of these names, which it is hoped may do for 
the United States wine the Dictionary of English Plant-names has 
done for iB Britai 

Mes St oe and R. Lloyd Preger have published in 
the tareer eee of the Royal Irish Academy (8rd Series, ii., No. 2) 
a full and interesting ‘Report on the Botany of the Mour. - Moun- 
tains, Co. Down,” from which we make an extract on p. 2 The 
nomenelatore is somewhat odd: e. g., ‘* Lepidium smithii ‘(Linn } 


Tue price of the Kew Bulletin has been raised to fourpence 
monthly. The contents of the November number are entirely 
economic. 

NEW magazine, to be oe be to Orchids, is announced 
to AppeAE on the Ist of Janu There are already a large 
number of Sunday newspapers, bk a Sunday Oke of this 
class is a novelty, and, as it seems to us, an undesir 


chid Revi 

Messrs. R. A. Rolfe and F. Leslie. Mr. Rolfe’s connection with 

ill be of great advantage to the new venture, and the 
“e ere of Orchids,” which have appeared somewhat out of place 
in the Kew Bulletin, ath no do ubt form an important and appro- 
sei Prete of The lew’, 

A new monthly magazine, to be called Hrythea, will begin with 
the new year. It will be under the direction of members of the 
Botanical Department = -_ University of California, the editor 
ete Mr. —— L. Jep: 

obse T Grate a note that “ the statements respecting 

[its]  aonctetneahip that have appeared in the Journal of Botany 

and elsewhere are entirely imaginary and incorrect.’”’ The point is 

one of the very slightest importance, but, so far as we are con- 
i 


OBITUARY. 


We greatly regret to record i death of CurisrorpHer Parke 

mitH, an authority of prominence in the study of British Muse. 
ne@, especially Hepati ce. He was born at Brighton on the 18th 
October, 1835, and began to work at botanical subjects (at first 
flowering plants) in 1858, the year of ar \bout 
twelve yeas = this date he acquired the herbarium of the late 
Mr. E. Jen A.L.S., and particularly after this ric) congas 
himself with ‘Gatbvlikinah to botanical pursuits. His ur and 
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82 OBITUARY, 


pondence with many contemporary British botanists; and he 
enjoyed the friendship of Mr. Mitten, Mr. West of Bradford, and 
the late Mr. G. Davies, with whose work he was in fullest 
sympathy, and of whom he gave some account in this Journal for 
1892 (p. 288). His friendship for Mr. Davies was in fact no 
ordinary one, and the death of this enthusiastic fellow-worker 
made a very visible impression on him. Mr. Smith belonged to 
the class of naturalists who are so averse from publication that it 

comes a matter of research to their brethren to discover their 


and painstaking work of this botanist. He devoted all his spare 


years made annual excursions to the Highlands of Scotland in 

search of novelties. His death, after ten months of illness, from 

cancer in the stomach, occurred at Hassocks, on the 15th 
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A NEW IRISH SEDGE. 
By R. Luoyp Praraer, B.E., M.R.IA. 
(PuatE 332). 


CarE RuyNoHOoPHYsA, Which I have now the pleasure of addin 
to the British flora, is a large and handsome plant, closely resembling 
C. rostrata, of which some of the continental author ities me 
described it as a variety. I am indebted to the kindness of 
Arthur Bennett for the nee ‘adaption, synonymy, &c. :— 

Carex rhynchophysa C, A. Meyer in Ind. sem. oak bot. Imp. 
Petrop. No. 9, suppl. p. 9 (184 4). 

pull = ae robusta Weinmann, Enum. stirp. agr. Petrop. 
p- 92. commen’, 
C. bullata Schr, 8. levirostris M. N. Blytt, Fl. Chr., ex Fries, 
Mantissa, ii. 59 (18 39). 
avirostris Fries in Bot. Notiser, p. 24 (1844). 
C. oimitiede B. obesa Hartmann ; Handb. Skand, Flora, ed. 5 
1849 


C. rhynchophysa Liebman, Mexican Halv. p. 76, 1850, is quite 
a aa plant, and is C. physorhyncha Steudel, Cyper. Plant. 
219, 1855.) 
Exsiccata. —Fries; Herb. Normale, fase. 6, No. 74; Herb. Fi. 
net 


res.—Flora ‘Danica aur 1, t. 386 (1858); Anderson, 
- 108 (1849). 


trib. — Finland (10 provinces); Russia, Perm, Wiiitka, 
province of Ingermanland (St. Petersburg); Norway, Lapland, 
Sweden, provinces of Vermland, Ostrobothnia, and Vesterbotten. 
Silesia, Transylvania. Indicated also in Siberia by Gmelin ; 
avuria. 


Plant er pes ge 24-34 in. high; leaves 2-3 in. med 
tapering-acute at the apex, as long as, or longer than, the culm 
sabrid on the bes the sheaths of the lower leaves rpoies those of 

middle ones closed; culms erect, semiterete at t ase, tri- 
an arom in the middle, and from the lowest t spike Sprapie usually 
pie ont pla bracts very leafy, longer than the male spikes; spikes 
outwards ab the yer me en ered erect, the lowest with a 

€ uppe 


scarious at the apex; glumes of the male flowers lanceolate and 
aiioulate, oe yellowish brown, with scarious edges; fruit globose, 
— a ing into a rather long cleft re with ney 


dive Bent with 10-12 fine nerves (prominent o only w 
dried}, Spllowiah when ripe, the apex of os spikes often etruned 
Journat or Botany.—Von. 31. [Fes. 1 


84 A NEW IRISH SEDGE. 


with dusky red; stigma trifid, long, deeply cleft to the beak of the 
fruit ; os scarcely ay the length of the fruit, and only one-third 
as broa , narro t the base, any finely striated. 

A eau bees beth much of the habit, in the lower part of 
the culms, of Scirpus sylvaticus ; os structure of the leaves is some- 
what between C. aquatilis and C. riparia. The Norwegian specimens 
have the leaves more like C. riparia, while those of Russia and 
Mongolia are between riparia and Scirpus sylvaticus. The spikes 
are ampullacea-like, but very much stouter, and much like be 
American Carea bullata Schkuhr. In drying, the fruits becom 
curiously compressed by the apex being te a the Tistendal 
portion, and thus giving the spikes an odd a 

Roughly, in looking for the plant, it may abe: ia & be a Carex 
with thick ampullacea-like fruiting spikes, and the leafage and 

culms of C. riparia. 

Ovae its area of growth it seems to be a sparsely distributed 
species, and is most abundant in the deep bogs on the river and 
lake shores in and. 

The ci Eceubisnaiioss connected with the erage of this plant in 

ath ene, which 


Britain were attended by a rather humorous se I trust it 

will not be considered heey to relate in the ylavs and strictly 

scientific pages of this Journal. st 14th last I was 

botanising along the marshy shores of Mullaghmore Lough, a 

lakelet occupying a shallow hollow he Lower Silurian or 

Ordovician rocks that cover the ¢ portion of the county of 
all plume-like tufts of Cicuta grew d, and 


osed, m 

leaves, a ne be earing several stout aaa erect spikes of fruit, with 
long leaf-like bracts. I again and again tried to hook it in with 

my stick, but unsuccessfully—tantalizing! Meanwhile, my eccentric 
movements had attracted the attention of the inhabitants of the 
immediate neighbourhood. A small boy who had been lying half- 
asleep under a hedge sat up and ‘Aare with all his might at this 
novel fishing. The cows which he was — ee 


cautiously, and stood mystified in a semicircle. ducks 
hurried in from the lough to see what was u , and sea within a 
few yards, expressing their mer in loud  poeregs of peept All 

as excitement and ! e sedge safely 
hooked this time 


hand closed on the stem. Then came the dénowement. The edge 
of the bank suddenly gave way. There was a frantic spring, and 


ON SOME GASES OF INVERSION. 85 


then a huge splash. The ducks gave one universal quack, and fled 
from the scene with a prodigious flapping; the cows kicked up their 
heels, and seattered precipitately; the small boy, convinced that 
the water-bogie was after him at last, fled from the spot in terror; 
and the botanist emerged, dripping with mud and water, but 
clutching firmly in his hand the first British specimen of Carex 
rhynchophysa ! 

Unable to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion as to its determi- 
nation, I passed the specimen to my friend Mr. 8. A. Stewart, who 
returned it, marked ‘“C. rostrata.” The general appearance of the 


clearest proof, he is now convinced of its identity with C. rhyncho- 
physa of C. A. Meyer. 


ON SOME CASES OF INVERSION. 
By Maxwert T. Masters, M.D., F.RB.S. 


Tux relative position of particular “ members” or tissues is so 

important a matter morphologically, and from the point of view 

of systematic botany, that any deviation from the ordinary mode of 

orientation is worthy of notice. I propose, therefore, in the 

following note to call attention to a few selected illustrations. The 
fe Pay ; : 


g ly v diverse, a 
circumstance that renders it the more desirable that they should be 
brought together for comparison and ultimate classification. 


REVERSED POSITION OF THE XYLEM AND PHLOEM ELEMENTS, 


A noteworthy illustration of this occurs in the fruit-scale of 
Abietines, indeed of all the Conifers. In the bract the arrange- 
ment is the same as in the leaf, that is to say, the phloem is 
towards the dorsal surface of the bract, whilst the xylem is 
directed towards the ventral surface. In the fruit-scale the posi- 


Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xxvii. pp. 276 and 302 et seq., 
and need not be further alluded to here. 


p22 


86 ON SOME CASES OF INVERSION, 


A common occurrence on the leaves of Yucca flaccida is the 
production of tubular horn-like processes from the margins. 
the central vascular bundles the arrangement is normal, but in 
those of the tubular portion the position of xylem and phloem is 
reversed, the phloem being nearest to the axis. 


REVERSED ARRANGEMENT OF THE PALISADE CELLS. 


at the base, so as to expose the dorsal surface to the light. The 
stomata are on the ventral surface in this case, but no change 


from the leaf, thus in the orange an outgrowth from the under 
surface is sometimes met with, having its ventral or green surface 
turned in the opposite direction from that of the rimary leaf, 


thus :-— fe) dark green surfaces, the thin lines 
paler surfaces. Occasionally in 
the Portugal Laurel (Dickson, Journal of Botany, 1867, 822) in 


REVERSED POSITION OF THE STOMATA. 
Although the stomata are by no means confined to the dorsal 
surface of the leaf, yet they occur there generally in greatest 
numbers. An exception may be noted in the cotyledons of many 


* Dickson, “ Foliage leaves of R ” : : 
part 1 (1885), t. ix,—xii, uscus,”” Trans, Bot, Soc, Edinb., yol. xvi. 


ON SOME CASES OF INVERSION. 387 


rr are is upper surface of the leaf, associated i a twist of 
the is witnessed in Alstrwmeria, Bomarea, various species of 
res es other monocots. No change occurs in chai cases, in 
the relative position of the xylem and a oem. 


INVERTED DISTRIBUTION OF COLOUR. 


In a flower of an ordinary Glowinia the richest colouration 
occurs in the interior of the tube, in a position corresponding to the 
ventral surface of the leaf. Occasionally petaloid outgrowths arise 
from the outer surface of the ordinary corolla, these outgrowths 
being sometimes so regular as to form a second corolla outside the 
first. In these enations the deep colour is si The thick 


er ones the paler portions these 
cases the en os on forms, th apr nara of its 
margins, a complete tube, and when that is the case, 


the deepest intensity of colour is ‘nadie, as in the 


Similarly a ‘peculiar malformation occurs rad 
in Calceolaria in which, in additi the usual t 
stamens, a third is developed in the form of a petaloid 
bag or tube within the corolla, and coloured in the same 
manner, except that whilst in the corolla the deepest aie p ier is out- 
side, in the petaloid stamen it is insi 


INVERSION OF THE FLOWER. 


In most sede the oath in the adult flower are so arranged 
that one is posterior and median, the other two are lateral, on 


* The examination of Calceolarias presenting the Poe ars men- 
tioned, induced me to study the m : ode of de evelopm ent of the flow The 
prim 


flower is therefore numerically haetes from the oer yee 
trace of the fitth ave or petal, nor of the three stamen Bichler stnibutes 
the fourfold calyx to the union, or want of separation of rts sepals, but there 
is no trace of fusion of two sepals. 


yi 


Fig. 1.—Normal Barley, germinating. 


ON SOME CASES OF INVERSION, 


Sa 


Fig. 2.—Inverted seeds of Barley. 


("~~ 


effected, then the flowers 
retain their primitive ori- 
nt 


ion. A 8 
ing case occurred durin 
t ast summer, 
which was kindly commu- 
nicated me r 
Douglas. It case 
ad a Cypripedium ne 

o flowers on 


and the lip anterior, as 
is usuall ase oO 
trace of torsion was visible 
in the axis se the 
flower, = in the ovary. 

I adiolus yet the 
same Sy kcemaasha some of 


Bat teson, Journ. Linn. Soc. 
XXViil. B: 490 (1891). 

inus the adutt cone 
is annasis deflexed, “og in 


some cases it retains its 
erect position. 
he complete inversion 


of parts in the carpel an 


(see figs. 1-4), The plu- 


ON SOME CASES OF INVERSION. 89 


mule here made its appearance from the base of the grain, while 
the roots proceeded from the other end—a topsy-turvy arrange- 
ment, the explanation of which has not yet been revealed.* 


Fig. 4. 
\ Embryo from 
the side. 
Fig. 3.—Barley grain with husk removed, showing 
the parts of the embryo. 
REVERSED POSITION OF THE CARPELS. 

In the genus Citrus, as also in Crataegus, Prunus, &e., supple- 
mentary carpels are occasionally met with, and whilst the ventral 
sutures of the normal carpels are directed centrally, (x , those of the 
adventitious productions are turned outwards, )x. In the pome- 

ica) it will be re 


8 

Where the increased number of carpels is really due to an augmen- 
tation of the pistillary whorls (pleiotaxy) the carpels are arranged 
in the ordinary manner. 


REVERSED POSITION OF THE GILLS OF MUSHROOMS. 


A very frequent malformation in Agarics is one in which the 
top of an ordinary pileus bears a second, but in an inverted 


* See Gard. Chron., March 15, 1873, and in Dr. Dammer’s German transla- 
tion of my Vegetable Teratology (1886), pp. 244—246. 
+ Lindley, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 735. 


40 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


position (fig. 5). All degrees of this change may be met with, the 
most remarkable perhaps being one illustrated by Mr. Worthington 
Smith in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for Feb. 24, 1887, in a species of 
Russula, where three adventi- 
tious pilei sprang from the top 
of the normal one; of these, 
two were reversed, whilst the 
third had the gills turned down- 
ward in the ordinary manner. 
See also Mr. Smith’s article in 
Gard. Chron., July 26, 1873. 
t will thus be seen that 
these cases of inversion are 
numerous, and cannot be at- 


Fig. 5.—Mushroom with a second one outgrowths from an already 
owing from its pi i i : 
ero foom its pllens in am icolatod  commpleted structure, the diffe 
natural position. rentiation of the tissues often 
takes place in an inverted 
direction, and furnishes additional evidence in support of the 

that there is no fundamental difference between caulome 
and phyllome. 

In other cases the inverted position seems to be due to a 
reversion to a primordial or even to an aucesiral state of things, 
but what brings about this sudden resumption of pristine ways is 
an utter mystery. 


AN ESSAY AT A KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 
By tHe Rev. W. Movie Rogers, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 10.) 


. R. coryirrotrus Sm. — Near R. dumetorum, but with st. 


while in the typical plant (R. sublustris Lees) the term. lt. is con- 
spicuously different in outline. Pan. somewhat irregular, more or 
less corymbose, often with 2 or 8 long axillary branches; rachis 
and ped. grey-felted, sometimes quite eglandular, and seldom having 
more than a few sunken or very shortly stalked glands (chiefly at the 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 41 


top), and acicles few or none. Sep. reflexed in fr. A puzzling 
collection of forms intermediate between R. dumetorum and R. casius 
a. R. sublustris (Lees). — St. nearly round, more or less striate, 


reddish, 

usually slightly declining from rather a small base. Lts. sharply 
doubly serrate, ashy-felted beneath; term. roundly cordate-acuminate, 
and often more or less 3-lobed. Pan.-rachis nearly straight. A very 


Engl z. 

b. conjungens Bab. R. cyclophyllus Lindeb. ? —- St. rather more 
angular and often stouter, reddish. Prickles less scattered, rather 
short but strong, declining or slightly deflexed from a long base. 
Lts. all usually broader, rounder, and with somewhat seienionarals 

y cor 


not te. Pan. 

rachis nearly straight. Perhaps as common as sublustris and as 
—— eglandular, and connected with it by numerous intermediates. 
. R. fasciculatus P. J. Muell. BR. purpureus Bab. — St. bluntly 
sada, subsulcate above, usually dark purple on the upper side, 
slightly hairy and with a good many scattered shortly stalked glands. 
Prickles many, unequal, slightly declining from a large base. L#s. 
doubly dentate-serrate, usually pale green-felted beneath ; term. 


. uch nearer to A. dumetorum (if indeed it can be 
kept apart from it) than the other two vars. Prof. Babington now 
considers it practically identical with R. Wahlbergii Arrh., while 
Areschoug (Observations on Rubus, 1887) would put the latter nearer 
to sublustris, as (judging from my Scandinavian specimens, as we 
as his description) I should also do. 

ee Blox oundish, with a good ma 


scattered fine hairs (both single ir aueionen ) and a few (datially 
very few) acicles Aad stalked ~—s Prickles few, slender, nearly 
patent from a rather small compressed base. L. 5-nate. Lts. large, 
irregularly and often doubly inane serrate, occasionally lobate, 
green and hairy on both niles; rugose above, paler shores soft beneath ; 
term. usually broadly elliptic or roundish acuminate subcordate. 
Pan, very loose, with long ~ en a few-flowered distant branches and 
a flexuose hairy rachis, having usually a good many unequally scattered 
stalked glands (which seldors exceed the’ hair), an occasional acicle, 
ew very slender patent prickles. Sep. ovate-acumin nate- 
attenuate, hairy and glandular, oe becoming erect. Pet. suborbicular, 
often very large, purplish or white. Fr. black-purple, large, and 
richly flavoured, Stam. etiar’ short, but usually exceeding the 
flesh-coloured styles. Widely but rather ae distributed. 
The ace plant, with its Sem large l., fees and fr., its 


49, KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


It has a phe bluntly angular subglabrous and almost polished st., 
with more crowded broader-based patent prickles, and a longer 
narrower more prickly and more leafy pan., with the upper Canes 
somewhat fasciculate; while in other respects it seems hardly 
distinct from the small-flowered forms of R. Balfourianus. A some- 
what similar plant occurs at Evershot, Dors 

The “Rf. altheifolius Host.” of British Rubi and Bab. Man. 
seems of too indeterminate a character to claim a place in our list 
at present; while the name ‘“ R, deltoideus Mill.,’ which takes its 
place in Lond. Cat. ed. 8, belongs, Dr. Focke assures me, 
hybrid, “* R. cesius x tomentosus,” ae we cannot expect to find in 
Britain, where R. tomentosus is unknow 

86. R. cxstus L.—St. prostrate a a low arch, round, usually 
slender and very glaucous, with small scattered subulate declining 
or deflexed prickles ; hairs, stalked glands, and acicles usually very 
few. almost always 3-nate. Lts. green on both sides (except in 
var. peoude: Ideus), unevenly incise-serrate, or rarely doubly serrate ; 
— — rhomboidal- -ovate, or 3- lobed ; lateral usually bilobed, 

Pan. lax, usually sm small, often nearly racemose wit 

ae ‘long. ‘stalked fl. Sep. oe ovate-aeuminate with long point 


This species hybridises so freely, that its numerous forms hardl 
admit of exact distinction. ow scarcely anything of the 
following vars., or their distribution. For synonymy, &c., see 
phys — 1886, p. 286, and Engl. Bot. eta to 8rd ed., 


a. aquaticus W. & N.; umbrosus Reich. ; agrestis Bab.—St. very 
slender, glaucous-green. Prickles few, very small.  Lts. thin, 
lobate-serrate ; term. rhomboidal-ovate-acuminate, rounded below. 
Pan. « often nearly simple, and, when otherwise, the 
branches are rarely one than once divi ed.’ ‘ 

fi. tenuis (Bell Salt.). R. degener P. J. Muell. ? — St. very 
slender. Prickles neny small, stout, mostly equal, much deflexed 
from considerably enlarged bases. Lts. rather doubly than lobate- 
ras bess obovate- acuminate, always narrowed below 


is Wallr. ; ligerinus Genev. ; ; ulmifolius Bab. —St. often 
not so gee as in a. and. b., 


d. intermedius Bab. — St. thicker, ae Prickles 
many, slender, pile unequal, subpatent. LL. 5-nate. Lis 

erm. triangular-cordate- a 3-lobed or divided 
into 8 sessile ies Stalked <sed se acicles few (as in a., b., and ¢.), 
but ue ~ stouter. Conn 


with e 
e udo-Ideus (Lej.). — are eather thick. Prickles ee 
violet- valewred anys L. 8-nate or 4-nate- -pinnate. Lts, ashy- 
anus ath. Obviously R. casius x — 


ispidus & N.; serpens Godr. rye St, slender, green. 
Lts. Sit serrate; term, obovate-acuminate, subcordate; lateral 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 48 


with a large backward lobe. Ped. and sep. with numerous stalked 
glands, and felted, but scarcely at all hairy. Drupelets 


Section II. Hersacer.—St. nearly or quite herbaceous. se 
usually attacked to the st. Fl. ‘‘umbellate,”’ or nearly solitary. 

eceptac 

Subsection I Beatin: —St. slender, eer esate Fl. umbellate 
or nearly so, or subsolitary. Carpels distine 

87. R. saxatinis L. — St. annual, sei unarmed, or with 
scattered bristles. L. 3-nate. Lts. oblong-obovate, nearly equal. 

l.-shoot erect, with a terminal few-flowered umbel-like corymb. 
Pet. erect, white, equalling sep. Fr. of 1-4 distinct drupelets. 
stony hill-country ; rare in 8. Engl. 

Subsection II. Arcrictr.—nNo sterile st., but a long subterranean 
rhizome. Fl. term., pee or subsolitary. Carpels adhering 
together. 

88. R. Coamamorvus L. — St. subterranean. L. simple, reniform, 
5- tr lobed, plicate. Fl.-shoot oo. phacueee with 1 large dicaious 
term. fl. Pet. large, white. Fr. of several large drupelets, first 
oe ‘then orange. _ipine e turf tities ; ee descending below 2000 ft. 

Axe-Edge, Derb. 


ConspEectus oF THE Groups or BritisH FRuticost. 

. St. tall, glabrous or with few hairs, not glaucous, with 
prickles mostly equal and confined to the angles. Usually without 
stalked glands. Stip. linear. Bas. lts. sessile, subsessile or stalked. 

a. Sep. green, with narrow white margin :— 

Superecti. — Increasing mainly by root-extension. Mature 1. 
green beneath. Pan. often simply racemose. No stalked glands. 
See p. 109 (1892 vol.). 

b. Sep. grey- or white-felted, and either perma white margin, 
or haying only a comparatively inconspicuous on 

Ruamnirotu.—St. usually rooting at the end in eee Mature 
1. green or white-felted beneath. Pan. usually compound. Stalked 
glands very rare, though occurring occasionally i in small quantity, 
especially in pan. See p. 111 (1892 vol.). 

B. St. arcuate or prostrate, rooting at the end in autum 
mostly hairy or furnished with stalked glands, seldom pando 
(except in Betxarprani), with prickles nearly equal or te 
confined to the angles or scattered. Stip. linear or filiform. Bas 
lts. distinctly duets 

a. Large prickles on the angles of the middle ae pe part of 
st. bolarahty rH Small prickles absent or present 

I. Pan. without stalked glands :— 

Discotores. — St. bearing adpressed hairs. All the prickles 
equal, strong. Li. 5-nate, white-felted beneath. See p. 202 (1892 
vol.). 


44 KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


II. Pan. usually — stalked glands, or with comparatively 
few (in ee typical plan 

Smvaticr.—St. caane patent hairs. All the prickles equal, or 
nearly so, cat moderate size. See p. 204 (1892 vol.). 

III. Pan. with stalked glands. 

1. St. eglandular, or with scattered stalked glands :— 

Eerreen.—Prickles subequal, _ on angles. Pan. with some 
nearly equal stalked glands. See p. 266 (1892 vol.). 

2. St. rough with crowded acicles and stalked glands :— 

Raputa#.—Prickles unequal—the larger ones nearly confined to 
angles, and less unequal or subequal. Pan. side “omni almost 
cymose. Stalked glands nearly equal. See p. 299 (1892 vol.). 

b. Prickles conspicuously unequal—the larger aie smaller 
irregularly mixed :— 

Kornterrani. — Large prickles strong. Pan. side nour 

almost cymose. Stalked glands mostly very unequal. See p. 8 

(1892 vol.). 

mace ustitn — Prickles mostly weak. Pan. usually racemose 
above, and with racemose side branches. St. frequently glaucous. 
See : 3 (1898 vol.). 

C. St. low-arching or trailing, glaucous, rooting at the end in 
autumn. Stip. broadened in the middle. Bas. lts. hardly stalked :— 

Czsu. — Prickles mostly ala: Stalked glands thinly 
soateered. or numerous, rarely wanting. Pan. usually short, and 
nearly simple. See p. 8 (1898 vol.). 


AppITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 

n this “Key” I have thought it best to make no attempt to 
deal exbastivel with county distribution. I have merely, in the 
case of some of the less-known forms, given within brackets the 
names of fash counties as I iee for them at the time of writing. 


ing so as a rule. 
op 111 189). Rh. Cariensis Rip. & Genev.—I have now reason 
to believe the toni referred to under this name to be rather widely 
spread in N. Devon. I have also seen it (ora very nearly allied 
form) in one Dors. locality; but a closer acquaintance with the 
Somers. plant. men _ een it to be different. 
112. R. Dumnoniensis Bab. — The lts., I find, are not un- 
frequently quite green one oaly thinly hairy beneath. 
.118. RB. nemoralis - Muell.—There is reason to fear that 


aggregate, ‘f. wmbrosus Arrh.” Dr. Focke has recently placed 
nemoralis a8 a subordinate form nearly allied to R. macrophyllus, 
and described it as having ‘Its. green on both sides, . . . . inflores- 
cence drawn out, with many flowered branches, large bracts, and 
falcate prickles; fl. handsome, pink.” This will hardly suit our 
aggregate. Probably our best course at present would be to 

aside the names nemoralis and wmbrosus, and make dumosus our 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 45 
pet ate pulcherrimus and Lindebergii as closely allied forms 


R. villicaulis Koehl. — The cha gry “concave |.,” 
though reliable, I believe, as applied generally to this species, is 
not true of the strongly marked ‘‘ Midl a ee Poa the 1. of which 
are, I am assured, conspicuously con 

1. The ‘plant referred ok as 5S ‘the usual ramosus of the 
Midlands” is the R. Mercicus Bagnall, since described in this 
Journal (1892, p. 372). 

8. R. thyrsoideus Wimm. — Quite recently Dr. Focke has 
thus named a Heref. plant of the Rey. A. Ley’s, and I have seen 
Notts and Linc. specimens, gathered by Mr. H. Fisher, that I should 
also refer to it. The following is a translation of Dr. Focke’s 
lately published description of this aggregate species :—‘‘ Lis. 
medium-sized, hatte s above, ne appressed white felt beneath, 


vetae. and coarsely often incise-serrate; term. narrow when 
ung, later senses ovate to Lisadi elliptic. Inflorescence long, 
Tere, scarcely narrowed upwards, rather gre with long branch- 


lets and ped. Fl. showy, white | or light pink. Tall handsome 

plants with striking beautiful pan.” The ‘‘species’’ is marked off 

from R. pubescens by its very high-arching glabrous furrowed st. and 

lis. often incised, and with more closely appressed white felt 

[oe h. 

230. fi. rset Bab. — The Aconbury plant gathered by 

Mr. hay ‘in the open’’ in 1892 has Its. rounder, much thicker, 
and in some cases even grey-felted beneath 

R. festivus Muell. & Wirtg. — Dr. Fo sa writes that specimens 

I ey him of a plant which grows in some quantity on Crowell 

, Oxon, ‘match the dried original plants” of this “ species,” 


not, I think, a material point of difference, as the pet. of the 
Crowell plant are not of a dead white. By his latest arrangement 
he places festivus after R. gymnostachys, caren past it only i in the 
following terms :—“‘ Lts. green beneath, as a rule narrower than in 
R. gymnostachys ; term. senaeally ner Inflorescence as in th 
preceding species; rather less hairy. More like R. acne and 
R The Crowell plait § is, however, much more strongly 
armed and more glandular than any ordinary gymnostachys, while 
its long pyramidal panicles, poueh very similar, are broader, and 
its 1. et thinn nner and greener. 
p- 5 (189 i, Bellardi W. & N.?” — The ‘?” here 
wrongly placed, as it belongs to the name that follows—R. sensei 
Blox 


. 
~ 
- 


R. acut ifrons Ley, Journ. Bot. 1898, pp. 13, 14. — This 
ig and strongly marked plant may be readily distinguished 
from its ally, R. viridis, by the more nearly equal and deflexed stem- 
pacts the longer pointed and more variable 1., and (above all) 
by - more interrupted pan. with remarkably aggregated and 
sma 

R. ohne Ley, Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 15.—My knowledge of 
this is too slight to enable me to form any very decided opinion as 


46 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI, 


where in our list it should come. But if I am right in my 
abo that its place will 


R. oigocladus (among t 


marked off from those two plants 
acicles, the curious ochreou 


benea 


e names printed in small 
binge nam 


Th 
groupe, = sections. 
The 


shutelbirs 33 refer to pages in “th 
893 v 


46, which are in the 


ACUTIFRONS Ley 

Adenophori . 

ApDoRNATUs P. J. Muell. 
Ve . 


adscitus Gene 
affinis 
agrestis B: 
altheifolius Host 
amictus P. 
AMMOBIUS Focke 
amplificatus Le 
GLOSAxoNICcUus Gelert 
angustifolius 
aquaticu 
Arc 


ALFOURIANUS Blox. 
Banningii (Focke) 
Beviarpi W. & N. 


C#SIUS 
calvatus Blox. 


Cartensis Rip. & Geney. 


c NIFoLius W. & N. 
earpinifolius Blox. 
CAVATIFOLIUS P. J. M. . 
HAM&AMORUS L. . 
chlorothyrsos Focke 


rove to be boom mes tereticaulis and 
the Betuarprant, Sect. B), 


s colouring which those organs share 
with the st., and the almost sclasiole 3-nate 1. harsh to the touch 
th. 


INDEX. 


Fier he are those adopted for sposied, 

8 in italics 
or spsetis noticed as doubtfully Brit 
= 1892 vol. of the Journal, except sabe under 


are of those t treated as var 
ish, The 


cognatus N. E. Br, . - B02 
CoLemaNni Blox 231 
concinnus Baker 10 
conjungens Bab 41 
conspicuus P, J. M 234 
Cory II ‘ : i 8 
CORYLIFOLIUS ‘Sm : ik 1 
cyclophyllus Lindeb, ‘ - Al 
Danicus Focke ‘ i 28h 
debilis Boul. ? 802 

egener P, J, M.? 42 
deltoideus P. J, M 42, 

entatus Blox. 5, 45 
denticulatus Bab. i « 800 
derasus L. & 884 
Devonienas Pek MS. 1% - 205 
dise ee me!) 
Disco — 3 » 202 
‘Miivnesfotens (Lindl. te ‘ 9 
DIVEXIRAMUS P. J. M. : 4 


DreEsERI G. Jensen A nee Fe 3 
DUMETORUM W. & 9 
DuMNONIENSIS Bab. 
dumosus Lefy. sake 
DURESCENS W. R.-L Linton «208 
Durorricum R. P. aE 4 
ndl, 80. 


ECHINATUS Li 1 

GII 266 
egregius Focke 270 
Hifeliensis Wirtg 233 
elongatus Mere 203 


erubescens Wirtg 234 
ERYTHRINUS Genevy. 200 
exsecatus P. J. 838 

asciculatus P. J. M 41 

erox Weihe 9 
Jestivus M. & W 45 
Fissus Lindl. 109 
flexuosus P, J, M. 884 
foliosus Blox, 838 


FoLiosus W. & N. : 
FRUTESCENTES .. J 


TICORL «4 i 
fusco-ater Weihe ? 
Fuscus W.&N. . 


SS 
~ 
5 
S 

af 
= 
w 
ise] 
i] 
= 


homistemon @. x M). 
— 


hir one . 
Daisoties M. & W. ? 
.&N. 


hypoleucus L. & M. 
hypom us Focke 


Hys 
hyotrve (W. & oN) 


=. sl. 
IMpRicarvs Hort. « : 


2 eee) Se ae 
. 


LEUCANDRUS s Fo cke ‘ 
‘EUCOSTACHYS Schleich. 


femme] feed fe) feed be f= pil sp. 
bal 
~ 
ras 
BoE e 
: 
Se 


ri Wirtg. 
Louatinv asic Lees 
macroacanthus Blox. 
macrothyrsos J. Lange 
MACROPHYLLUS W, & N. 


es eae 


KEY TO BRITISH RUBI. 


macrophylloides a 
ocke 


orosus Genev. 


oIgocLapus M. & L. ? 
lodontos P. J.;M 
opacus Focke : 


N. 
plinthostylus Genev. 
PO Lus P. J. M. 


polyanthemus Lindeb. . 
Boake: 


RAMIDALIS 


RADULA Wei 


IFOLI 
en W. & N.. 
RHEN M. ? 
oo satenkalateld Weihe 
ROSACEUS W. & N. 
rotundifolius Bab. 
rotundifolius Blox. 
rubricolor oe 
rudis Bab. 

RUDIS Weihe : 
RUSTICANUS Mere. 
SALTERI Bab. 
saltuum Focke 


118, 44 


es 


5 


48 ALISMA RANUNCULOIDES VAR. ZOSTERIFOLIUM FRIES. 


SAXATILES , ‘ i : 48 | sublustris Lees . ‘ “eat. TF 
SAXATILIS L, . . - 48 | suncatus Vest. . § er aig 
SAxIcoLus P.J.M. ‘ 5 | tenwis (Bell Salt.) : ara 
SCABER W.&N. . . - 803 | TeRETIcAuuis P. J. M. . é 
osus P. J. M. - me 340 siflorus W. & N. - 804 
Schlectendalii (Weihe) - 205 | thyrsiger Bab. . . - 833 
Schlickumi Wirtg. . - 270 | thyrsoideus Bab. . ; - 2038 
serpens Godr. & Gren. . - 42 | thyrsoideus Wimm. ., 208, 45 
SERPENS Weihe , ‘ P 6 | tuberculatus Bab. : rorege US. 
' setulosus : ; : 269 | ulmifolius Bab. . - ietey. 
SILVATICI 3 ‘ ‘ - 204 | umbrosus Arrh. . ‘ ble 


SILVATICUS W.&N. - 204 | umbrosus Reich. . “ a7 42 
Spectabiles . Joes ‘ - 266. velatus Lefy. i ‘ . 7 


stenophyllus P. J. M. ; : 143 | vestitus Weihe : : 234 
ss Focke . ‘ » 113 | vitxicautrs Koehl. «148, 45 
‘ : } : - 280 


LLARDIANI 299 | virescens G. Braun 
SUBCORYLIFOLII 267 |. virrprs Kalt. j 3 
SUBERE ; ; 109 | Wahlbergii Arrh. ? 41 
SUBERECTUS Anders. 109 | Winteri Focke 201 
SUBKOEHLERIANI . . - 299 


ALISMA RANUNCULOIDES var. ZOSTERIFOLIUM Fries 
BRITAIN, 


By tue Rev. E. §. Marsnatt, M.A,, F.L.S. 
On August 5th of last year, when botanising along the Beauly 
age, I came 


river, E. Inverness, opposite the villag 
1 of 


So different. For the most part the plants grew entirely sub- 
merged, the root-leayes generally having a small lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate blade, but many of th 


t 
oating, plant-bearing stems remained ; nor 
could I fin normal 4. ranunculoides anywhere around. Very few 
Specimens were in flower, and those only at the water’s edge; the 


ALISMA RANUNCULOIDES VAR. ZOSTERIFOLIUM FRIES. 49 


and almost all the information gleaned from books about it. He 


d, from 
an examination of Davies’ specimens of his A. repens, concludes 
a 


it treat it as a “good” variety; but whether it is really more 
than an extreme “state” can only be proved by experiment. 

The first publication by Fries was in Botaniska Notiser for 1840, 
p. 35 Nov. Fl. Suec. Mant. iii. p. 188, written two years later, 
ignoring his previous name, the author substituted that of spar- 
ganifolium, possibly considering it more appropriate. The earlier 
title must, of course, ‘ il 
prelongis natantibus linearibus membranaceis. Bot. Not. ; 
Cilandie australis aquis G. M. Sjistrand. Exacte respondet A. 


apice laminam parvam abortivam videre licet.’’ e origin 
description runs :—‘ foliis longissimis linearibus natantibus (fran 
Oland, Sjéstrand).” The following list (due to the source already 
mentioned) illustrates the book-history of the subject :— 

1753. Alt i 


1846. Fries Summa Veg. Scand. p. 65. 
1864. y. littorellefolium Mortensen in Lange’s Handb. i den 
Danske Flora, ed. 3, p. 799. . 
1868. Echinodorus ranunculoides G. Engelmann in Ascherson 
Flora d. Prov. Brandenb p- 651 (1864), var. foliis zosteraceis 
op, 37 


urg, 
Buchenau. Abhandl. d. naturw. Vereines zu Bremen, xi. p 
(reprint). ; 
1869. var. sparganifolium Fries. Marsson Flora von Neu- 


vorpommern, p. 446. 
9. v. zosterefolia Fr. i. Bot. Not. 1840, Hartman Skand. 
i 16. 


187 @ 
Flora, ed. xi. p. 416 


JournaL or Borany.—Vou, 31, [Fes. 1893.] E 


Mo. Bot. Garden. 
1894 


50 


AJUGA PYRAMIDALIS IN SCOTLAND. 
By Arruur Bennett, F.L.S. 


In last year’s Journal, p. 310, Mr. Colgan asks under what con- 
ditions, and at what elevations, the above species occurs in 
Scotland. As no one has replied to his query, I offer the following 
notes. In compiling them I am much indebted to Messrs. Miller 
and Duncan for notes on the species in the Hebrides and Suther- 


_ Taking the counties in which it occurs, and in which the 
habitats are so stated as to be available :—In Orkney it occurs at 
about 600 ft., “on the sides of a hill.” In the Outer Hebrides it 
grows among short grass about 100 ft. above sea-level on ground 
moderately dry. Another station is on the S.E. slope of one of the 
hills that occupy the peninsula at the S.W. corner of Harris, about 

50 ft. above sea-level, on roughish, moderately dry ground, 


Caithness it grows on “The Old”; this is about 1250 ft. 
altitude, but I can find no note of the exact position of the plant 


e 
probably from 8-400 ft. altitude. In Dumfries, ‘on 
grassy plat formed by a slip in the rocky sides of the glen, at an 
hen of about 1750 ft.” (J. T. Johnstone) in the Moffat 

istrict. 


ir J. E. Smith describes its stations as ‘ in dry pastures in 

the Highlands”; Hooker and Arnott as “ Highland pastures.” Mr. 

Bentham remarks (ed. 1), “It is never more marked than in 

recently burnt pastures”; this is the case in Sutherland, except 
that heather predominates over grass. 

Looking beyond our own country, in Norway it extends 


upwards from 3500’, 4000’, and 5000’. Sommerfelt, in his Suppl. 
Fi gives ‘in graminosis humidis inferalpinum.”’ 
Denmark, at a low elevation in the island of Bornholm, &e. («in 


high grassy p 
pastures and heaths. In Italy, «in alpine pastures in the Alps.” 
In cultivation (from Sutherland) it often shows for flower in 
the end of March, and in early seasons is in full flower by the end 
e 


LABORATORY NOTES. 51 


’ g 
present leaves are curiously folded with patent hairs almost touch- 
ing each other, looking much like a trap. Mr. Watson (Cyb. Brit, 


7 | Bg 


but rather as a biennial than perennial, 


LABORATORY NOTES. 
By Spencer Le M. Moorr, B.Sc., F.L.S. 


I. Tux pest way To make Minton’s REAGENT. 
HE usual method of making Millon’s reagent is that given by 


8 
being caused before the fluid is ready, but the process is not 
feasible, supposing only a little of the reagent to be required. 
Seeing that Millon’s fluid is well known as being a mixture of mer- 


pleasant smell caused, and just as much or as little of the reagent 
can be made—if it be only a few drops—as the operator requires. 


II, A NEw WAY OF DEMONSTRATING CONTINUITY OF PROTOPLASM. 

Within the last three years I have had much occasion to use 
Millon’s fluid in connection with researches on callus and para- 
callus, and on the chemical constitution of cell-walls. Having 
frequently noticed that by careful boiling of sections mounted in 


up. Preparations so treated may, after thorough washing, be 
mounted in glycerine, and they will keep for years. When it is 
E 2 


52 LABORATORY NOTES, 


remembered that, except very rarely (e. g., Strychnos Ignatia), the 

ordinary methods employed to demonstrate continuity involve 
action of the reagent during several hours, the advantage of the 
plan here proposed is at once obvious. 


III. Action or coup Minton’s FLUID ON IRON-GREENING TANNIN, AND 
CELL-WALLS GIVING PROTEID REACTIONS. 


In a memoir recently published in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvii. 
I have endeavoured to show that the substance in certain cell-walls 


: y 
various reagents employed, whether those reagents be reagents 


me ev 
dered in favour of the view that the presence of tannin (or at least 
of some glucoeide) often determines the colour taken in these cases. 

As I 1ere writing about Millon’s reagent, the opportunity is 
taken of stating that, in the course of some farther researches on 
this interesting subject, an unsuspected confirmation of the above 
doctrine has lately come to light. I find th 

on’s fluid is added to a solution of tannin, no change in the 
yellow ochre-coloured precipitate * ensues on allowing the unboiled 
product to stand overnight, yet that with an iron-greening tannin in 
the form of a solution of catechu, the result is quite different, since 
the precipitate slowly becomes brick-red without boiling. Here then is 

till favours continental views can 
easily apply. If the substance in the cell-walls which react like 


the result of the experiments is here given: in each case 

Fatih were kept overnight in Millon’s fluid, but usually three or 
lent, 

a). Icy. Xylem, hard bast and to a less degree outer cortical 

ayers and epidermis aot as on boiling in the fluid. Th i 

a sclerotised f i i 

fnnér side of thé xelam undamental tissue lying upon the 


* If the solution be a stron ea : : 
soon becomes ochre-coloured, § one, the precipitate is at first orange, but it 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 53 


(0). Escallonia macrantha. Xylem and hard bast well stained. 

. Ju conglomeratus. Xylem and sclerotised aes 
Gans: ‘surrounding vacua bundles wall stained; w hl 
less clearly staine 

(d). Yellow Jasmine. Walls of xylem, hard bast, phelloderm, 
and to a slighter degree of soft bast stained; sclerotic fibres 
running through cortex also well-stained. 

(e). Privet. Xylem and hard bast stained. 

(f). Pyrethrum Partkenite Xylem and hard bast stained. 

(y). Berberis Darwinii, Xylem and hard bast stained. 

(h). Maize. Walls of xylem and especially those of the scler 
tised fundamental tissue in the neighbourhood of the ner 
bundles stained. 

(t). Rhizome of Arundo Phrag ae Same as maize. 

. Veronica sp. ard bas xylem stained. 
(k). Isoétes lacustris. intone walls stained. 
ust suffice to remark that these stained walls are precisely the 
walls which os the proteid reaction a east d Millon’s fluid. More- 
over, iron-greening tannin in the s of these plants, when it 
could be deaboted, reacted in the same eae as did the walls to the 
cold fluid. 


— 
NS. 
—— 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALG OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
By Eruet 8. Barron. 
L.—PROTOPHYCE 


Lynepya semrpLena J. Ag. Sea Foint, Boodle! A small speci- 
men on Codium tomentosum. 

Geogr. Distr. North Sea. Adriatic. 

CaLOTHRIX CRUSTACEA Ag. Kalk Bay, Boodle! 

thse Distr. Adriat 

Derr PA PRASINA — On Rhizoclonium, Knysna, Boodle ! 
On Cladtiphie rupestris, — Harvey ! 

Geogr. Distr. North Sea. Adriatic. 


II.—CHLOROPHYCE. 
LVE 


ULVE2. 

Uxtva Lacruca L. Robben Island, Tyson! Kalk Bay, Boodle! 
Knysna, Krauss! Port Elizabeth, Sutherland! Port Natal, Arauss! 
No. 274; Gueinzius! Cape, Hohenack.! Meeralgen, No. 490; Reliquie 
Brebissoniane | Ser. 2, No. 206. 

RIGIDA. Kalk Bay, EH. Young! Knysna, Boodle! Cape, 
Hb. Tenormand 
eogr. Distr. N. Atlantic. North Sea, Mediterranean, West 
ee 

U. rasomra Delile. Cape Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, tard 
Kei Mouth, Flanagan! Cape, Reliquia taps Ser. 2, No. 

Geogr. Distr. General in warm 5 


54 MARINE ALGEH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


U. unctanis Suhr. Robben Island, Boodle! Wenek! Table Bay, 
Drege! Areschouy, Tyson! Cape Agu ulhas, Hohenack.! Cape, rer 
choug, Phyc. extraeurop. exsicc. No. 59; Hohenack.! No. 
Dickie! Reeve! 

EnteromorpHa compressa Kiitz. Table Bay, Ecklon! Sea 
Point, Tyson! Knysna, Krauss. 

Geogr. Distr. General 

EK. ruexvosa J. Ag. Cape, fide De Ton 

mat Distr. Atlantic. Pacific. Baltic. Mediterranean. 

EK. sunzosa Kiitz. Robben Island. Table Bay, Drege. Sea 
Point, Cage Point, Kalk Bay, oko Boodle ! 

Geogr. Distr. Southern o 

KE. Linza J. Ag. Cape, Dr 

— Distr. N. Missile, Baltic. Mediterranean. W. Indies. 
Tasm 

Bw InTESTINALIS Link. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! Cape, Drege! 
Brand | 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Mediterranean. W. Indies. 

E. cuarsrata Roth. Mouth of Olifants River, Drege. 
Bay, Sutherland ! 

Geogr. Distr. N. Atlantic. North Sea. West Indies. Tasmania. 
New Zealand. 

aironkig insignis Aresch. Port Natal, fide Areschoug. 

NGSHEIMIA scuTaTA Rke. On Placophora Binderi J. Ag., an 
euinlcie on Codium ferent ee Kei abetueis Flanagan ! 

Geogr. Distr. Baltic. Scotland 


Algoa 


CoNnFERVE, 


MORPHA cLavaTA Kiitz. Table Bay, False Bay to Algoa, 
fide ‘sasekos Cape Point, Boodle! Sea Point, Boodle! Table 
Bay, Harvey ! 


Geogr. Distr, West Indies. 
C. sae Kitz. Port Natal, Ava 


Geogr. Distr. North Sea. Baltio. Mediterranean. North 
Atlantic. Red Sea. 


C. naratensis Hering. Port Natal, Krauss. 
C. crassa Kiitz. Kei Mouth, Flanagan ! 
Geogr. Distr. Adriatic. Ire 1 and. 

C. rea Kiitz. Kalk Bay, Boodle! 


Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean, Atlantic oo of Europe, 
Canaries, United States, W. Indies ay. ore 


R#IzocLoNiuM RIPARIUM 


Harv eae 
$ a Distr. North Sea. "Baltic. Mica gh iidinn 
cean 
R. ARENOSUM Kiitz. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 
Geogr. Distr. British shores. Arctic ocean. 
R. tortuosum Kiitz. Se dgoay, Boodle | 
Geogr, Distr. North Sea 


MARINE ALGA OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 55 


CLADOPHORA NUDA Kitz. ig Agulhas, ag gps ! Meeralgen, 
No, 464. This specimen is so fragmentary that it is quite im pos- 
sible to examine it satisfactorily, and I therefore take Hohenacker’s 
a on trust. 
eogr. Distr. Atlantic. 

C. mepirerranea Kiitz. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! Meeralgen, 


o. 466. 
Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean. 
C. spinutosa Kiitz. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! Meeralgen, 
No. 351. 
Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean. 
C. gtomerata Kiitz. Port Natal, Krauss. 
Geogr. Distr. General. 
C. arra Kiitz omnbaed Krauss. 
Geogr. Distr. Maurit 
C. nospita Kiitz. Robben Island, Tyson! Table Bay, Ecklon, 
Harvey! Green Point, Harvey! Cape Point, Boodle! Cape 
Agulhas, Hohenack.! Knysna, Krauss. Cape, Gaudichaud, Deeat 
Areschoug, Phyc. extraeurop. exsice. No. 60; Hb. Dickie! Harvey! 
b. Lenormand! Hb. Wenek! Reeve! Hohenack. | Meeralgen, Nos. 
53, 204. 
C. carentrera Kiitz. Table Bay, Harvey! Boodle! Kalk Bay, 
Boodle! Cape, Hb. Lenormand! Reliquie Brebissoniane! Ser. 2, 
No. 124. 


C. FLAGELLIFORMIS oe (? anelanes. C. virgata Kitz.). Olifants 
River to Algoa Bay, Bin Robben Island, Boodle! Table Bay, 
Drege! Krauss, Menz met Tatie y! Kalk Bay and Cape Point, 
Boodle! Knysna, Krauss. Cape, issued in Brebisson’s Algues de 

"rance! Ser. 2, No.98; Hohenack! Meeralgen, No. 152; Hb. Wenek! 

C. rupestris Kiitz. Cape, Brand! Harvey! Scott Elliot ! 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Baltic 

C. rricnoroma Kiitz. Between Gocmansetilo and Omcomas, Drege. 
This is the only record of this alga from the moi that I can = 
In the Herbarium of the British Museum there is a specimen nam 
‘‘ Conf. trichotoma, Cap. B. Spei. Herb. Rea. .. which is clesay 
Cladophora hospita Riitz. ; So a 5, with the exception of Mazé’ 

imen C. trichotoma aeitaapoasi, n, 
I am inclined to think that Drege’s RS was simply C. hospita 
Kitz. 


Geogr. Distr. North Sea. Adriatic. W. Indies. 

OC. Ecxtont Kiitz. Table Bay, Ecklon, Drege! Robben Island, 
Wenek' Cape Agulhas, Hohenack! Meeralgen, No. 463. Cape, 
Hb. Dickie! og eee 

(reogr. . Indi 
C. virGaTA Kite. Table ay, Binder. 

Spec. dubia. 

C. CAPENSIS Cape, fide Areschoug (Phyc. cap. p. 18). 

(“ Num Lychete ‘Wiuonii?” ). 


56 SHORT NOTES. 


C. acunzata §. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. 
C. napiosa §. Algoa Bay, mouth of Zwadtkap. Ecklon. 
SIPHONER. 

Micropictyon umpricatum Zanard. Port Natal, Krauss. 

Geogr, Distr. Atlantic. Pacific. Mediterranean. Red Sea. 

Apsounta RucuLosa G. Murr. Port Alfred, Carr! Kei Mouth, 
Flanagan! Algoa Bay, Becker! Cape, Harvey! Natal, Krauss ! 
Sub nomine Conferve prolifere Roth. 

Geogr. Di apan. 

Cuammporis annutata Mont. Table Bay, fide Areschouy. Port 
Natal, Krauss 

Geogr. Distr. Brazil. Indian Ocean. W. Indies. 

(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


plant of this species on the bank of the Severn, near the Ketch, 
between Worcester and Kempsey, on August 7th, 1890. So far as 
I can ascertain, it has not been recorded for this county before.— 
R. F. Townprow. 


Hyer Oxcuts.—TI notice on p. 882 of last year’s Journal that 
you would like to know whether I found more than one specimen 
of the natural hybrid Habenari-orchis viridi-maculata. I only found 


hybrid, so that there must be plenty of opportunities for cross- 
fertilisation, and it seems strange that it should not oftener occur. 
ect H. Sp. Perotrvan. 

VALERIANELLA CARINATA IN East Kent, — My friend Mr. F. 
Smith sent me this plant a few months ago from Boughton 
Quarries, Linton, near Maidstone, where he has noticed it growing 
for several years. Atropa Belladonna occurs in the same quarries. 
Mr. Arthur Bennett has seen specimens.—Ernust §. Saumon. 


57 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


Fossil Plants as Tests of pred reas the Sedgwick Prize rae SO 
the year 1892. By A. C. Sewarp, M. A., Lon 
. Clay & Sons. tox rechie 6. xii. 151. Price Sa 


In this Essay Mr. Seward has undertaken the examination of 

a large and important question, and if his conclusions are less 
definite than could be wished, it is due rather to the state of 
is part he 


. . m W. i 
sidered the subject. This will explain to the reader why the 
author has indulged so largely in quotation, and why, independent 
esa though not entirely absent, is not a prominent feature of 
e essay. 
In a somewhat lengthy historical sketch, Mr. Seward traces the 
growth of such theories or opinions as have been formulated with 


ratures, with —- reference to Arctic vegetation. We then 
to what we ard as one of the most important chapters i . a 
whole essay, a that on ‘‘ the influence of external conditions upon 


pa ssible ways, we ought to know to what extent it is possible 

o infer climatic conditions from morphological and histological 
tail Unfortunately, however, in spite of a at has been 

done in the way of distinguishing the floras of different climates 

in these respects, we are still far from such definite and constant 

relations between structure and climate as will enable us to 

pass with confidence from one to the other. The facts as they 
i 1 y sho 


stand are fairly well summarised by the author, but the Ww 
most clearly that much experimental rese e required 
before we can use plant-structure as a guide toclimate. In dealing 


with this part of his pan eh Mr. Seward takes up one or two posi- 
tions which we think will hardly be accepted by modern botanists. 


a cause, and to take a view of the function of cork not held by 
plant See generally. A few sentences further on, refe- 

ce is made to the woody plants of the tropics, and we read that 
“ there, the wood is not a safeguard against the influence of cold, 
but serves to give the plants that firmness which they require to 
enable them to support their branches. In a tropical climate, cork 
must be looked upon, not as a screen from cold (italics ours), but as 


58 FOSSIL PLANTS AS TESTS OF CLIMATE. 


a regulator of ies of which it prevents exce WwW 
venture to think that this statement is as correct for cold vomperat 
plants as for tropic al nek and that neither wood nor cor 
special adaptation against cold. 

In dealing with the possibility of using the structure Se fossil 
plants as a guide to climate, the author gives most ention 
to those of the Cusbunifersis Period, and concludes at ‘“‘ we 
cannot as yet learn many lessons in Climatology from the 
structure of stems, roots, and other parts of fossil plants,” 

n this we fully agree. Thanks to the researches ~ Carruthers, 
Wilkinson, —“ Sree continental co-workers, the minute struc- 
tur e best known types has been euikaa out with 
considerable detail, but this merely gives us some idea of the 

e habitat, and throws little light on that of climate. 
ts sentiedicne the case of Lepidodendron, Mr. Seward follows what 
is a common practice, and speaks of the vascular tissue as 

‘‘wood.”” We would suggest that the time has arrived when a 

reform of this terminology is urgently needed, especially if we are 

to employ the structure of the fossil in the diagnosis of climate. 
Oo 


of tra 
subserving the functions of conduction, mechan cal 
support, and s storage of elaborated food-stuffs. =e te 


either ~ does not mean the same thing as in Diesel if 
this were borne in era e should not hear so — about the 


ied 

secondary xylem. Curiously enough, Mr. Seward describes this 
sclerenchyma as cork, overlooking the facts that it lies entirely y within 
the generating layer, which produces it centrifugally, an 
tissues outside it appear to retain their power of growth even when 
it has attained ee eee 0 sepernt 

assing over the n chapters on ‘Annual Rings in 
Recent and Fossil Plan or and ‘Arctic Fossil Plants” respec- 
tively, we have another excellent chapter on the Climate of the 
Carboniferous Period as indicated by other characteristics of the 
vegetation than those of structure. Here the evidence which has 


rendered — i the old ideas of a tropical climate, with an 
atmos osphere mn with moisture wig carbon Eg is well set out, 
and specia. ieoaiianee | is given to the views of the lat e Dr. 


Neumayer, of Vienna. There is malin. hemeisk: which calls for 
special comment or criticism, and the same may be said of the 


closing chapter on the plants of the Pleiocene. eerpen Hick. 


LES ALGUES DE P. K. A. SCHOUSBOE. — LES LICHENS. 59 


Les Alques de P. K. A. Schousboe. Par Eipovanp Borner (Masson, 
Paris, 1892). Extr. des Mem. de la Soc . Nat. 
et Math. de Cherbourg, t. xxviii. i, pp- 216, 3 tab. 

wth of Alge will cordially welcome this volume by M. 

Bornet, giving an account of the Algw collected in Morocco and 

the Mediterranean (1815-1829) by Peter cdasaben, who was 

Danish Consul at Morocco for some thirty years. Those who 

possess the valuable sets of Alg@ Schousboeane will be especially 

glad of this ers work. It is prefaced by a very suggestive, brief 
essay on the affinities of the marine flora of this region; but the 
feature of vantigull value is contained in the notes on the species. 

Their critical value is beyond estimation in this short note. It is 

scarcely necessary to add that the = are illustrations 

of the kind one sees only too seldom 


Les Lichens: Etude sur srsmegee la physiologie et la morphologie 
de Vorganisme lichénique. Par A. Actoqur. Paris: Bailliére 
et fils. 1893. Pp. viii. "876, fig. 82. 3 fr. 50. 


Turs is one of the last lavage to the Bibliothéque Scientifique 
e hundred volumes 


Contemporaine, - which s have already 
appeared. The e is Sern gine clear, ‘ed comm andabiy free 
from misprints. ‘the illustrations are woodcuts intercalated in the 


letterpress. While ce cueee of the way in which the publishers 
have got the book up, we feel it our duty to express our dis- 
satisfaction with them for datihe the title-page ‘ 1893,” since the 
b 


Up 
eae barca rion nostoch n’est pas un lichen seca et 


possibility of its being anything an alga, we determined - 

search for further particulars. The rier of our search is that w 

find M. Acloque to be disinclined to entertain the theory of sedan 

dener and the « hétérogonidistes,” who hold that a seegevt is a 
and 


Suffice it to say that in M. Acloque’s opinion the two elements of a 
lichen develop themselves separately at first, giving rise to distinct 
eres imperfect so long as they remain isolated. Nostoc is an 
ance of the purely gonidial state, capable of indefinite growth 
as Noss c, but incapable of generating hyphe and of becoming a 
completely developed lichen. It must wait, as it were, until som 
matrimonially inclined hypha or spore comes along and offers to set 
up someon sara with it; and then things just hum around, as the 


60 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


ue of the eult ie ios employed for distinguishing 
the parts and innumerable states of these variable plants, and put 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Ann. Scottish Nat. Hist, (Jan.). — E. 8. Marshall, ‘ Scottish 
Willows.’ — G. C. Druce, ‘ Alchemilla vulgaris.’ — J. W. H. Trail, 
: suey ammophila.’ 

Centralblatt. (Nos. 1-4). — G. Holle, ‘ ia Anatomie der 
PE Date und deren systematische Verwerthun 


Bot. Magazine (Tokio).—(Dec. 10). Eugenia a ‘efolia Yatabe, 
sp. 2 


Zeitung (Dec. 23, 30).—H. Rehsteiner, = Entwicklungs- 
sieschinhie der Fruchtkérper einiger Gastromycet 
ull. Torrey Bot, Club (Dec.).—J. K. Small, « the of American 
Species of oy onum® (DP. Pringlei Small, P. phy dir en 
Meissn., spp. nn.). — N. L. Britton, Rusby’s S. American plants 
(contd.),—L. H. “Pammel, ‘ Phenological Notes. 
Gardeners’ Cpesritle (Jan. 7). — ‘ Pitcher-plants and pene: 
cense.’—(Jan J. G. Baker, ‘ panne sis of Canna.’—(Jan. 21). 
Kniphofia Piet Hort- Leichtlin, sp. n 
Journal de Botanique (Jan. 1, 16). —L. Guignard, ‘Sur le 
développement de la graine et en particulier du oe meg séminal.’ 
—(Jan. 16). J. Vesque, ‘La tribu a Clusieés’ (contd.). 
 Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift ee ee A. Kerner, ‘ Die Nebenblatter 
der Lonicera Etrusca’ —ZJ, Liitkemiiller, : noe 


reich-Ungarn.’ — F. Krasser, ‘ Kleiner re Arbeiten des pflanzen- 
physiologischen Institutes der Wiener Universitiit.’—E. v. Haldcsy 
‘Zur Flora der Balkanhalbinsel * (concl.), 


61 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


rush Faber. The subject is one with which only those possessing 
special knowledge are competent to deal; and as, to our regret, we 
are not among these favoured few, we must content ourselves with 
calling the attention of those interested to the work. From o 
knowledge of Dr. Bretschneider’s previous undertakings, we have 
no hesitation in saying that this volume is a valuable contribution 
to the History of Botany in China. 
Tuer sixth part of Prof. Macoun’s cheap and useful Catalogue of 
Canadian Plants (Montreal, 1892; pp. viii. 295; 25 cents) enume- 
rates the Mosses. It includes 128 genera and 953 species. Of these 


ab 
period of thirty-one years. All species recorded from Greenland, 
Alaska, and Newfoundland are included. 

In the Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural History Society for 
1891-92, there is a paper by the Rev. W. A. Bathurst, who gives 


ment that he imported plants of Linnea from “ Pontorsina in the 
Encadine,” and “set roots of it in many places” in a forest near the 
i i eve 


Saas V ey. ‘Call it vandalism if you like,’’ he says; an 
without his permission this is the d we should have used, 
unless some stronger expression had suggested itself ost 


: al 
tire absence of anything bearing upon local natural history is 
the chief feature of these Transactions. 

Tae first number of Erythea, the new ‘“‘ West American and 
general” botanical journal, contains two papers by the Editor, Mr, 


62 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO, 


ai he latt 
‘‘will be likely to appear at longer intervals.” The last editorial 
note foreshadows a new crusade, against ‘barbarous and ugly ”’ 
and ‘ uncouth personal”? names. 

Tue first number of the Orchid Review, viewed from a botanical 
standpoint, is distinctly disappointing. No editor’s name is iven, 


the scientific value he new venture. As an addition to the 
large number of horticultural journals already in existence, the 
Orchid Review may have its value, but on this point we do not feel 
competent to express an opinion. It is well printed; but the 
illustrations, which are to form “a special feature of the work,” 
are by no means satisfactory. 


regon, Washington, and the North-western Coast. These, which, 
in our present knowledge, number nearly 200 species, are, Dr. Vasey 
tells us, all specifically distinct from those found east of the 
Mississippi River, and also mainly distinct from those of the plains 
and desert, except in that part of California which partakes of the 
desert flora. Many of the grasses of the mountain regions of 


Idaho, Mon and the interior ‘ e dry interior of 
alifornia, verging southwards into the desert, is poor in grasses, 
specially those forming a turf hi e first part of the 


raising of domestic animals.”’ Dr. Vasey’s assistant, Prof. L. H. 
ewey, is responsible for most of the descriptions. There are 
50 plates, including figures of 52 species and varieties illustrative 


anc Measurements of the parts are freely given. The plates are 
well drawn and well lithographed, though a little crowded in the 


OBITUARY, 68 


more extensive. Taken as a whole, the work is excellent, and 
shows how useful a Department of a may be; we con- 
artnet and envy our American cousin 

WE regret to announce the death of Dr. Benjamin Carrington, 
which took place at Brighton on the 18th of Januar hope 
to publish an account of the deceased hepaticologist from the pen 
of his friend, Mr. W. H. Pearson, in our next is 

Tue Herbarium of Mr. William M. Canby me ree purchased 
by the College ce Pharmacy of New York, and will be placed in 
their new building, now in course of construction. : 
Herbarium has been in course of formation during the last rd 

years, omy is very rich in American collections. An account o 
Be barium by Prof. Rusby is given in the Bulletin of the Lovey 
Club Riscuber last. 

Tue thirteenth volume (1892) of the Proceedings of the Dorset 
Natural History Society contains two botanical papers—one by 
the President, Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, on Lamprothamnus 
alopecuroides, and the a by Mr. a Lister on Mycetozoa; 
iat is illustrated by a plate. We are glad to learn that the new 
edition of Mr. Mansel- Pleydell’s Flava’ of Dorset is on the eve of 


We are always glad to allow the reprint of papers published in 
this Journal, when the ordinary courtesy of asking es is 
bserved, or a suitable acknowledgment made. A recent ap- 
propriation of several pages, without such Siegen or yer ow- 
ledgment, calls for a protest on our part. in no way interferes 
with the privileges hitherto extended to fieh as desire them, but it 
may perhaps serve as a check upon those who ignore the usual 
amenities of journalism. 


OBITUARY. 


Wuen the death, on the 30th of November last, of that dis- 
tinguished biblical scholar the Rev. Fenton Joun Antuony Hort, 
late Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, was announced, few 
probably iraorgrastee that forty years ago he m i t have been 


Panett John Anthony Hort was born apparently in — and 
proceeded in due course to Trinity College, Cambridge, hie 
most of his botanical notes are dated. In the 2nd y a of the 
Phytologist (pp. = site ~ eee a ‘ Notice of a few sSinito growing 
at Weston-super-Mar ‘Note on Centaurea nigra var. radiata 

and C. nigrescens,’ both pains date November 5th, 1847, when the 
peat undergraduate was not yet twenty; and in the 8rd vol. 
p. 821-2) is a ‘Note on Alsine rubra var. media Bab.,’ dated 
« Torquay, Sept. 27th, 1848.”’ In the 1st vol. of Henfrey’s Botanical 
Gazette (1849), pp. 197, 200, he has a paper ‘On Viola sylvatica 


64 OBITUARY. 


and canina,’ and in the 2nd vol, (1850), pp. 1-2, a ‘Notice on 
Potamogeton fluitans Roth and Ulex Gallii Planch.’ ; 
Meanwhile, though these short notes suffice to show the writer’s 
critical acumen, he was already giving proof of the direction in 
which that acumen was likely to be employed. In 1850 he 


platyphylla’ ; and in the same volume (pp. 155-7) appears a ‘ Note 
on Athyrium filix-femina var. latifolium,’ dated 12th November, 


on the ‘ Occurrence of Orobanche carulea Vill. and Aconitum Napellus 
in Monmouthshire,’ dated July 21st, 1852, anda ‘Note on the 
of Mr. H 


Cambridge. 
In 1852 he was elected a Fellow of his College; in 1853 he 
n 


ment of botany in favour of biblical studies in much the same 
manner as Watson regretted that Edward Forbes’ « attention had 
been drawn from botany to the more showy studies, in which he 
became eminent.”’ 

With Hort’s subsequent career we are not here concerned. He 
became Divinity Lecturer and Fellow of Emmanuel College in 
1872, Hulsean Professor of Divinity in 1878, and Lady Margaret 
Professor in 1887. He became D.D. of his own University in 1875; 
published two theological dissertations in 1876, and, jointly with 
Dr. Westcott, a revised Greek text of the New Testament in 1881. 


of the New Testament, and for these services to scholarship was 
L Trinity College, Dublin, in 1888, and 


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OUR ENDEMIC LIST. 


By Wittum H. Bessy. 


as to whether or not the seventy-five forms are endemic being 

afterwards treated of in asummary, from which we learn that Sir J. 

Hooker would exclude fifty-five of the seventy-five forms from the 
endemic list, for ‘‘ various reasons.” 

Before proceeding further, I desire to acknowledge fully that it 

is a far more difficult matter to draw up such a list as Mr. Bennett 

8 


of the plants named in Mr. Bennett’s list are made wi s 
j Some of the plants remarked upon below are 


Caltha radicans Forst.— From my experience of this and 
kindred forms, I should feel it very rash to assert that it is endemic. 
My reasons for taking this view are contained in previous papers, 
and need not be repeated here. 

Brassica monensis Huds. — The form of B. Cheiranthus men- 
tioned by Lloyd (Fl. de U Ouest, ed. x. p. 24) should be compared 
with this; until the result of such a comparison is published, one 
would hardly feel disposed to accept B. monensis as endemic. 

Diplotaxis muralis DC. var. Babingtonii.—Both biennial and 
perennial forms occur in France. Apparently endemic in name 
on] 


y- 
Viola lutea Huds. var. amena.—The varieties given by Koch 


ge, 
differs from the type chiefly in its purplish copper-coloured foliage, 
the character is retained to a very considerable extent in culti- 


66 OUR ENDEMIC LIST. 


H. C. Watson a great many years ago, is not variable, and is easily 
apparent to anyone who is accustomed to compare the two. Un- 
doubtedly, however, C. arcticum is more nearly allied to C. alpinum 
than to C. latifoliwn L. 

Anthyllis Vulneraria L., var. ovata.—I am disappointed to learn 
that this remarkably beautiful plant reverts at once to the type in 
cultivation ; from Mr. J. er’s experiment it would appear 
that it is merely a state due to situation, and it should accordingly 
be expunged from our lists. 


there in situations similar to those which here produce pseudo- 
botryodes. 

rex tnvoluta Bab.—Accepted as endemic by Hooker, who 
remarks, however, that it is probably a hybrid between C. vesicaria 
C. ul. 


veractum. — Mr. Bennett quotes fifteen endemic forms, a 
number which might be greatly increased. On all of these Sir J. 
‘ ker say :—* No case can be made of these. 

They are local forms with the shadowiest of shady characters.” I 
confess that the real intent of this criticism seems to me somewhat 


obscure (some might feel inclined to ask, what n endemic 
species but a local form ?); but surely nobody would expect to find 
1m a recently separated island, forms as distinct hose found in 


eweaniac : c 
Hieracium are Just what they ought to be, although this, the really 


: tical, or in other words, more 
plastic, groups. We know that the great bulk of our named 
Hieracia are not merely states due to situation; their characters 


OUR ENDEMIC LIST. 67 


have been proved to be permanent by cultivation under varied con- 
ditions, all of which are different from their own original habitats. 
heir ki i refore specific in its nature, and we 
will leave it to others who are interested in the point to allot 
seems h t 


der in Scandinavia, we may with some safety assume that the 
bulk of the plants now considered to be endemic here will even- 


While on these points, I take the opportunity of calling atten- 
for i been 


sense,” as Mr. C. B. Clarke does, and at the same time (or pre- 
viously) sneering at investigations of the kind referred to. One is 


see Evolution in its active state. 
can easily understand how galling it must be to the mere 
plant-sorter, to see the increasing study of the more critical groups 


away from him; but it does seem an anomaly that one writing from 
the Darwinian point of view should fail to see the extreme value of 
studying those groups in which the forms run closes 


is a local form ; in its wide distribution in Scotland (from Shetland 
southwards), due to the pappus-borne fruit, it forms a notable ex- 
ception to the rest of the American group. 

Besides the plants referred to above, there are various others in 
Mr. Bennett’s list which I should not venture to accept as en- 
demic ; as, however, the exclusion of these rests mainly on indi- 
vidual opinion, it is perhaps not worth while to name them at 
present. There are also some which may be eventually added to 
the list, but in the present early stage of their history, it would be 
premature to accord them such rank. 


68 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ. 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Continued from vol. xxx., p. 332.) 


XVII. BASTARDIA H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. p. 254, 
t. 472.—Bracteole 0. Carpella in capsulam loculicide 3- ‘S avon 
connata. 

1. B. viscosa H.B.K. l.c. p. 256; pe Haris, sare: t. 53 bis. 
B. Guayaquilensis Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. . 1858, p. 201. 
Abutilon fetidum es Meth. Su upp. p- 508. "Sida viscosa L. ; 
DC. Prod. i. p. 467. 8. fatida Cay. ;- DC. Prod. t,¢. <8. Magdalene 
DC. Prod. 1. DC. 


ip ae 

Hab. West Indies! Mexico! Guatemala! Ecuador. Ve- 
nezuela! New Granada. Peru. 

Var. a. Grisebach, Fl. Brit. West Indies, p. 80. 

Hab. West Indies 

Var. 8. PARVIFOLIA Gri sebach, /.c. Bastardia — iy H.B.K. 
beep: 255, t. 472. Sida Bastardia DC. “Fala 

Hab. — West Indies. Cuba 

Var GR Sida fragrans Tate Stirp. p. 111, t. 

2. Plhta feagrans, “folia majore quam typo pedunculis Behe 
brevioribus, carpe 
oe b. St. Dotitin 
2. B. nirsuTirLora ‘Beat Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 112. ee hirsutis- 
sima Walp. Rep. i. p. 827. 8. hirsutissima Dietr. Syno 0. 
Hab. Mexico, nr. Acapulco, Haenke! Barclay! Collin ‘Palmer, 
No, 1307 

ae awe has only three carpels. 

. B. conrerta Garcke et K. Schum. in FI. Brazil, Fasc. cix. 
p. 869, t. 66. 

Hab. Brazil, Glaziou, No. 14516. 

4. B, wtecans K. Schum. in FI. Brazil, l.c. p. 868. 

Hab. Brazil, Prov. Minas Geraes, Warming, No. 1842. 

5. B. srvatvis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 255. B. aristata 
Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1858, p. 200. B. spinifex Tr. & Pl. 
Prod. Nov. Granat. p. 186. _— bivalvis Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. 464. 
8. viscosa MacFad. Fl. J 

ab. Brazil. New Pea a Ecuador! Jamaica! 

6. B. Bertanprert A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. p. 295. 
Hab. Mexico, nr. Tantoyuca, Bulandiér, Nos. 747, 367 | 
Species excluse. 

Foe er Guill. & Perr. = Abutilon intermedium Hochst. 

B. eris il. = Abutilon crispum Sweet 

B. sonrale St. Hil. = Abutilon crispwm Sweet. 


Subtribus 4. Asurmem. — Carpella simplici serie verticillata. 


Ovula 2-o (rarius 1) sepius adscendentia, nune alia pendula alia 
adscendentia, 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEX, 69 


Ppyass HOWITTIA F. v. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst 
p- 116.—Bracteole 0. Ovula — sattateralis. Carpella 8, in 
Farce loculicide 3-valvem connata 

1. H. rrmocunaris F, v. Muell. 1. ¢. 

Hab. Australia. 8. A civtentia: Victoria ! New South Wales ! 


XIX. KYDIA Roxb. Pl. Corom. iii. 215, 216.— 
Bracteole 4-6. Carpella 2-3 in capsulam Toculioide 2-3- valvem 
connata. 


t. 215. K. Roxburghiana Wight, Ic. ii. t. 881. K. fraterna Roxb. 
Pl. Corom. t. 216. K. pulverulenta Ham. in Wall. Cat. 1176. 
Hab. India! Burmah! Tonquin! rah 
. K. euasrescens Mast. in Fl. Brit. Ind 
Hab. North- east India, Griffith, 1794 |! "Bidtaoos 
ere excluse. 
Kydia neh ba om Arn. = Julostyles weberadte Thw. 
. axillaris Thwaites = faut les axillaris Benth. 
K. jujubifolia Griff. = Dicellostyles jujubifolia Dalits 


XX. WISSADULA Medik. Malv. p. 24.—Bracteole 0. Car 

pella apice divergentia plus minusve transversim appendiculata. 
ect. I. Sea. Griseb. Fl. Brit. West — p- 77 (Sectio 

Srparum).—Carpella 1- _ rarissime multio 

DIVERGENS Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. ihe pp. 197 & 204. 
Sida divergens Benth. Voyage 0 S Sulphur, p. 69. 8. periplocifolia 
MacFad. Fl. Jam. p. 85, n 

Hab. Jamaica. fennel nr. - Guayaquil ! 

Caul o ramoso erecto, foliis 
longe petiolatis cordato-ovatis apice subacuminatis distincte i irregu- 
laviter crenato-serratis discoloribus supra sparse pubescentibus sub- 

s molliter cinereo-velutinis 7-9- palmatinervatis, petiolis teretibus 
prt cinereo-pubescentibus, floribus laxe paniculatis, pedicellis 
gracilibus, sepalis triangularibus acutis, petalis flavis calyce <a 
longioribus obovatis, stigmibus capitato-stigmatosis, carpellis 
terne pubescentibus apice acutis 1-spermis, seminibus apihihatio 
fulvis angulatis. 

b. Paraguay, nr. Villa Rica, in the Forests, Balansa, 
No. 1603! 

Stem “1 metre’’; leaves 4-5 in. long; petioles 8-5 in.; petals 

¢ in 


long. 
The leaves of this plant are crenately serrated and discolorous. 


II. Euwissaputa K. Schum. l.c. p. 488. — Carpella 2-3- 

e matura plicis binis transversalibus lateribus spurie in 
loculamenta 2 superposita divisa, sepius heterosperma 

. W. rostrata Planch. in Hook. Fl. Has p. 299, W. Lesche- 

naultiana Mast. in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 825. W. hernandioides 

Garcke in Zeit. fur Natur. lxiii. p. 123. Abutilon parviflorum 


70 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


St. Hil. Fl. Bras. saree - p. 201. A. leucanthemum St. Hil. 
Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p. 200. a hernandioides, A. polyanthon, A. 
Tucianum, A. pues en prien Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, > 
A. contractum Sweet, 1. c. : ed. 2, p. 64. A, laxiflorum G. & P 
Fl. Senegal, i. p. 66. A. verbascoides toy in Bull. Soe. Nat. 
Mose. 1858, p. 202. Sida racemosa Vell. Fl. Flum. vii. t. 15. 
8. polyantha Schl. in Link Enum. ii. p. we. S. Luciana & S. 
Leschenaultiana DO. Prod. i. p. 468. S. rostrata Schum. et Thonn. 
Beste e Guin. Pl. p. 806. SS. stellata Don, Gen. Syst. p. 499. 
S. amplewicaulis & ? S. polystachya Vell, Fl. Flum, vii. ft a & 22, 
8. oe athe Dietr. Syn. iv. p. 851. 8. leucanthema Dietr. Syn. iv. 
p. 8 


Hab, Trop. 8. America! Paraguay! West Indies! ‘Trop. 
sats India! Cape Verd Is. ! Mauritius! Bourbon 

a periplocifolia L. var. B. in the er eee Herbarium is 
represented by a specimen of Sida dumosa Swar 

4, W. zeytanica Med. Maly. p. 25. W. sits Presl, 
Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 117; K. Schum. J. c. p.441,t.77. W. rostrata 
Pl. var. 1. zeylanica Mast. in Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 825. Abutilon 
periplocifolium Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 58. Sida periplocifolia L. ; 
DC. Prod. i. p. 467. 

A pe India ! Ceylon ! Malaya! ‘Trop. America! Mexico. 
Cuba ! 

Var ee W. periplocifolia var. Wric ghtiana Griseb. 
Cat. Pl. Cub. p. 25. W. eacelsior Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 117, 
t. 69, figs. a-m. 7 co eg G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 500. Sida 
excelsior Cay. ; DC. Prod. i. p. 

. Hab. Mexico. Central America ! Cuba, Wright, No. 2058! 
eru. 

Var. cuaremaense.'— Foliis ovatis acuminatis petiolatis subtus 
per stellato-ferrugineo- -tomentosis, floribus paniculatis paniculis 

nfertis terminalibus vel subterminalibus, carpellis aristatis 

ab, Guatemala, ‘In dumetis Mazatenan ngo,” Bernoulli, No. 55! 
eps 4 in. long, rather more than 2 in. broad ; petioles 1-2 in. 
. CuaPetiert, A, Chapelieri H. Baill. in Bull. Soc. Lin. 

a 1885, p- 508. 

Hab. lies bor. or. Chapelier ! 

6. tens Garcke in Zeit. fur cep 1890, p. 128. 4bu- 
tilon aon Bt. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. p. 2 Sida patens Dietr.- 
Synop. iv. p. 851 

Hab. Bos Provs. Rio Janeiro! Minas Geraes. 

; uGINEA Garcke et K. Schum. in Fl. Brazil, J. ¢. p. 443. 
Sida Ferraginen DC. Prod. i. p. 468. Abutilon ferrugineum HB. K. 
Noy. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 271, 

Hab Peru. Valley of Paulo, alt. 7000 ft., Jameson! 

- NUDIFLORA Garcke in Zeit. fur Naviow. 1890, p. 128. W. 
stellata K. Schum -l.c. p. 445, Sida stellata Oay.; DC, Prod. i. 
p. 468. 5S. nudiflora L’Herit, Stirp. Nov. p. 128, t. 59. Abutilon 
nudiflorum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, ‘ 

Hab. Peru. Bolivia! St, Domingo. 


SYNOPsis OF GENERA AND sPiicriis OF MALVER. 71 


W. uirsuta Presl, map Sn "yg ii. p. 118. Abutilon crini- 
tum “Klotz. in Linnea, xiv. 

Hab. Brazil! 

10. W. cymyantoemum K. Schum. pe c.p. 446. Abutilon gymnan- 
sags Gris. Symb. ad Fl. Arg. p A. wissadifolium Gris. l. c. 
p. 4 

Hab. Argentine Republic. 

. 11. W. anprnvum Britton in Bull. Tor. Club, xv 1 pet 

Hab. vk mp a M. Bang, No. 768! Cuesto of Pertodiadi. 
A, Mathews, No. 

ect. IIT. ta Biss K. Schum. J. c. p. 489. — Carpella 
2-3-sperma dissipimenti horizontali a dorso abeunti in locula- 
menta superposita bina divisa. Tnfloresdentia contracta. 

W. spicata Ware Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 117, t. lxix. figs. 1 
K. Bokum: loc. p. 448, t. Ixxvili. W. gymnustachya et W. 9 EH 
Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, p. 202. Abutilon Bs aoa 
H. B. K. Nov. Gen. v. p. 271. Sida spicijlora DC. Prod. i oP. 

Hab. Trop. America! Cuba! Mexico! Guatem 

Sect. IV. Asurmastrum.—Carpella 3-rarissime 4- -sperma ; dis- 
sepimento loculos undique dividente sed lateribus et angulo carpelli 
interne non adherente. Inflorescentia paniculata. 

13. W. RE ‘hee: Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 117, t. 69, figs. 1-14. 

Hab. Mexi 

Species exclusa. 
W. holosericea Garcke = Abutilon holosericeum Scheele. 

XXI. HORSFORDIA A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. p- 296. 
—Bracteole 0. Carpella 1-3- “sperma, pars superior sepius vacua 
mox —- membranaceo-scariosa, et bipartita in alas 2. 

1. ta A. Gray in Proc. Am. oo Xxlil. p. 297. Sida 
alata S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xx. p. 38 
Hab. Mexico. N.W. Sonora, Page 
~ Sarre A. — lic. Abutilon Newberryi 8. Wats. in ~ 
Proc. Am. Acad. x 

Hab. United | a oe Lower California. Mexico! 

3. H. rorunprrouia S. Wats. in Proc, Am. Acad. xxiv. p. 40. 

Hab. Mexico! Lower omen 


4, H. Patmeri S. Wats. l. c. 
Hab. Lower Californie. Los Angelos Bay ! 


XXII. ABUTILON L. Fl. Zeylan. p. 219. — Bracteolm 0. 
Carpella 2-o (rarissime 1- -ovulata) apice divergentia vel rotundata 
intus nuda. 


Sect. I. 05h a aaa Schum. l. c. p. 866.—Stigmata capi- 
tata superne papillosa 
A. Cusseta 1—2-ovulata rarissime multiora. 


1, A. oxypetatum Triana & Planch. Flor. Noy. Granat. p. 184, 
Hab. New Granada, Schlim, No.290! Santa Martha, Purdie | 


72 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVES. 


«: ee one Garcke et K. Schum. 1. ‘ Hy 370. 

Hab, Peru. Kcuador, Jameson, No. 6 

8. A. mnrermepium Hochst. in Schwing oak Fl. Aeth. p. 49. 
A, angulatum em in Fl. Trop. Africa, i. p. 188. Bastardia angu- 
lata Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 65. Sida acutangula Steud. Nom. 
ii. p. 576. S. a ajate sa Bojer in he 

Hab. Tropical Africa ! Aiiainniint 

Var. MacropHyLLum. Sida macrophylla Hils. & Boj. in herb. ex 
Baill. J. c.—Fruticosum, caule angul ata, foliis cordatis ovatis acutis 
esac Be. tig fulvis subtus albo-cinereis, sepalis subacuminatis 
vel ac 

ou “itaigieabbe nr. Tananarivo, Bojer. Port aes Ins. 

Sato, Bernier. wee Leven, Vesco, No. 2! Boivin, No. 2 

Var. Gre um. Sida Greveana H. Baill. in ae ae 
Par. 1885, p- ‘504. —Fruticosum totum albo-pubescens, 2 oa 
teretibus ramosis, foliis cordatis ovatis, pega ene articulatis, car- 
pellis 1-spermis reniformibus. 

Hab. West aggre Mouroundava, wea No. 22! 

Fi A. graveolens var. Figarianum Webb 

—Caule terete ramoso, foliis cordatis ovatis ieregaarite detitaae 
floribus paniculatis, carpellis 1-3-ovulatis reniformi 

Hab. North-east Africa, nr. Matamma, Rikectincth; No. 1418! 


B. Carpella 3-ovulata rarissime multiora. 
a. Inflorescentia umbellata. 
ae retire aristata vel rostrata. 

4, A. umpeLLatum Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 53; Jacq. Hort. 
Vindob. t. ne Sida nb lblade oc DC. Prod. i. p. 469. 8. obtusa 
Cav.; DC. / 

o Weat Indies! Mexico! New Granada. Peru. 
UMBELLIFLoRUM St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. p. 204. 

= Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 501. Sida ar Distr 

Pp 


Brazil. Prov. Rio Grande do Sul. 
— — Carpella nen 
6. A. Fitcxicrrianum K. Schum. l. ¢. p. 870, t. Ixvii. 
sg South Brazil or Uruguay, Sathen, 1741. Argentine Re- 
publi 
7. A. Iparrense 5 B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 272. Sida 
ibarrensis DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 
Hab. New Gtannda | Ecuador. 
. A, Terminate St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. p. 208. Sida termi- 
nalis Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. 471, 
Hab. Brazit! Uruguay! Argentine eee 
9. A. rivutare St. Hil. lc. p. 202; K. Schum. J. c. t. Ixviii. 
A. affine Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 508. Sida fins Spr. Syst. Veg. iii. 
p. 121. 8. rivularis Dietr. Syn. iv. p. 854 
Hab. South Brazil o r Uruguay, Sellow, Nos. 509, 714. Uru- 
guay, nr. Monte Video, Sellow, No. 3168. 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES Of MALVER. 73 


0. A. discolor, n. sp. — Caule ligneo 
superne angulato et rufescente, foliis_petiolatis cordatis ovatis 


= 
y 


Mexico. Tula, Berlandier, No. 2163! Herb. Mus. Brit 


11. A. Galeottii, n. sp. — Caule vel ramo ligneo, foliis ovatis 
apice acuminatis vel subacuminatis basi cordatis vel rotundatis 


nh mediam striatis, petalis flavis calyce longioribus obovatis vel 
oblanceolatis, stigmibus capitatis, fructibus junioribus dense stellato- 
pubescentibus. : 
ab. Mexico, Parkinson! Vera Cruz, Galeotti, No. 41038! 
Herb. Kew. 
Related to Abutilon integerrimum Turcz. 
Peduneles nearly 8 in. long; petals 3 in. long. 
B. Inflorescentia plus minusye paniculata. 
* Boreali- vel Centrali-Americana, Mexicana, Cubanaque interdum 
nd. occidentalia rarissime Ins. Sandvicensia. 
+ Petala erecta. 
12, A. Xantt A. Gray in Proc. Am, Acad. xxii. p. 801. 4, calj- 
fornicum Benth. var. in Proc. Am. Acad. v. p. 154. 
ab. Lower California, 
13. A. Sonorz A. Gray, Pl, Wright. ii. p. 28, 
Hab. Mexico! New Mexico! 
14. A. Neauteyi Coulter in Contr. from Nat. Herb. vol. ii. p. 41, 
Hab. West Texas. Hildago County, 
15. A. Revenrum §. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad, XXL. p. 418, 4. 
Sonore var., A. Gray in Pl. Thurb. p- 808, 
ne - Mexico. Arizona. 
his and the three preceding species have a nak d 
panicle of small flowers. sear tate 
16. A. Patmeri A, Gray in Proc. Am. A 
Hab. Mexico! Arizona, Lower Cali 


ae 
o 


cad. vii. p. 289, 
fornia, 


18. A. incanum Sweet, Hort. Brit. j r S30. 
Presl, Reliq. Haenk, ii, p. 116, ex. deser, pag ers lane 
Prod. i. p. 468. 4. Texense & A, Nuttallit Torr, & Gray, Fl Amer 
1, p. 231, Sida ramosissima Dietr. Synop. iv. p. 8538, °° 

Hab. Mexico! Texas! New Mexico, Arizona! Sandwich Is,! 


74 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


19. A. rriqvetrum Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 115. Sida tri- 

quetra L.; DC. Prod. i. p. 468. 8S. “asian gat Jacq. Am. p. 195. 
= b. Mexico! Yucatan! Cuba 

= pp Schl. in ane xi. p. 366. Sida Keerlena 

Btond Nom. B 

Hab. South sateen 
21. A. matacum §. Wats. in ee Am. Acad. xxi. p. 446. 

Hab. reer Chihuahua 

22, A, HOLOSERICEUM Shula’ in eg xxl. p. 471. A. velu- 
tinum A. Gray, Ill. Gen. Pl. Am. bor. ii. p. 67, t. 125. 

Ha exico! New Me xico ! 

This plant has been referred by A. Garcke in Zeit. fur Naturw. 
1890, p. 124, to Wissadula. It is possibly the same as af erosum 
Schl. in Linnea, xi x1. p. 367 (S. suberosa Dietr. Syn. iv. p. 858). 

23. A. Anprrevxu Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Nov. pars alt. p. 24. 

eae South Mexico. Oaxaca, Andrieua, Be: ! 

agg aaah Pees sen Haenk. ii. p. 115. Sida 
oo Dietr. Synop. iv. p. 
Hab. West ects: pS 


+ + Petala reflexa vel subreflexa. 
25. A. prvaricatum Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1858, p. 204. 
Hab. South Mexico, nr. Vera Cruz, Linden, No. 1878! Galeotti, 
No. crass Cordova, Bourgeau, No. 1740. 
26. A. mexicanum Presl, Relig. Haenk. ii. p.115. Sida bibracteo- 
lata Diete, Synop. iv. p. 856. 
H Mexico. Guatemala! 
ag to A. petiolare H. B. K. 
A. ELATUM co. Fl. Brit. West Indies, p. 79. Sida elata 
Maced. Fl. Jam 
ae South elt Sa Jamaica ! 
whee slr meg A. Rich. Fl. Cub. i. p. 158. Sida con- 
feria Dietr. Synop. iv 56. 
Hab. Cuba, Wright, No. 1572! Trinidad! 
** Australi-Americana Ins. rat. de rarissime Centrali- 
“Auntie? 


29. A. THYRSODENDRON Griseb, in *Goblt Abhand. xxiv. p. 48. 
Hab. Argentine Republic. 

- A. RamirLoruM St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. p. 199. ? Sida 
polystachya Vell. Fl. Flum. vii. t. 22. 8. ramiflora Dietr. Synop. 
lv. p. 852. 

Hab. er ard Balansa, 1608! Gibert ! Brazil, Herb. Imp. 
— No. 1308 ! 

. A. anistutosum K. Schum. I. ¢ ce. p. 8 
Hab, Brazil, nr. Piccada, Pohl, No. 3989 (d.n. 1821), 
* yp hceiaiichbAote Garcke ex Andersson, Galap. Oar. 


Vege 
sae Galapagos Is, | 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEA. 75 


. A. cicanteum Presl, Ape) Haenk. ii. p. 116. Sida gigantea 
Paes rc Schoenb. ii. p. 8, t. 141 
exico ! New ‘een Peru! Venezuela, Fendler, 
2287! 9 

aah DETONSA Triana . Planch. Prod. Fl. Nov. Granat. p- 183. 

ew Granada 

Related to A. elatum Griseb. 

34. A. stENopETALUM Garcke in Bot. ie mete: p- 683. 

Hab. Venezuela, Funcke et Schlim, No. 180! 

35. A. cymosum Tr. & Pl. Prod. FI. a? Granat. p. 185. A. 
agra Seem. Bot. Herald, p. 83. 

- . Panama! New Granada ! Bolivia ! 
7 Grevitteanum Walp. Rep. i. p. 158. Sida Grevilleana 
qin, th Bot. Mise. iii. p. 154. 8. Doniana Gill. MS. 

Hab. Chili! Ecuador, Jameson, 605 in part ! 

*** Bahamense. 

37. A. Egger sp. — Caule erecto fruticoso ramoso 
tereto velutino, foliis j cares ovatis acuminatis vel sbaisninatix 
acute 5-lobatis lobo medio majore parce discoloris utrin nque 
molliter cinereo-pubescentibus basi cordatis serratis, floribus pani- 
culatis paniculis foliosis, pedunculis pedicellisque teretibus siniaiee 


Hab. Bahamas. “In sylvestribus New Providence, Seven 
Hills,” Eggers, No. 4288! Herb. Mus. Brit. 
Stem about 8 ft high ; leaves about $ in. long ; petioles 1-1} in.; 
carpels 4 in. long. 
arpels of this plant are venti g muticous and reniform, 
and eosinbls those of Abutilon muticu 
* *** Gerontogea. 

38. A. ramosum Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. p. 68. 4. sparman- 
nioides ony & Perr. l.c. p. 70. A. Masarpotdes Webb, jt a8 Fl. 
Aeth. A. —— Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. Sida 
ramosa Cav, C. Prod. i. p. 469. 

Hab. Tr ropica. al Africa ! India, North-West Provinces. Closely 
related to A. cymosum Tr. & Pl. 

89. A. pipentatum Hochst. in Fl. Abyss. i. p. 68. Sida bidentata 
Hochst. 

Hab. Tropical Africa! India! Arabia. 

40. A. oneiousre Hochst. ex Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 68. 
Sida longicuspis Hochst. in herb, S. scans R. Br. in Salt, 
Abyss. p. 
Hab. Abyssinia ! Mozambique District ! 

r, Hitpesranprn. — Caule ligneo ramoso, foliis cordatis acu- 
min re serratis, floribus axillaribus, petalis obcuneatis reflexis, 
carpellis apiculatis, 


76 THE MOSSES OF GUERNSEY, 


Hab. East Africa. N’di (Taita), J. M. Hildebrandt, No. 2683! 

Differs from the type in the carpels, which are pointed. 

41. A. aurirum Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 53. 4. atropurpureum 
Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 502. A. pyramidale Turcez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Mose. 1858, p. 203. A. stipulare Presl, Reliq. Haenk, ii. p. 114. 
A. Guichenotianum Dec. in Herb. Timor. Dese. p. 106. Sida atro- 
purpurea Bl, Bij. i. p.77. 8S. aurita DC, Prod. i. p. 468; Bot. Mag. 
t. 2495 


Hab. Malaya! PhilippineIs.! Queensland! New Caledonia! 

Naturalised largely in the Tropics. 

42, A. tTruworrENse Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 500. Sida Timoriensis 
DC. Prod, i. p. 468. 


Hab. Timor. 
Sida Pentacarpos Roxb., DC. Prod. i. p. 473, and S. Sesei Lag. 
Nov. Gen. p. 21, are doubtful species belonging to this group. 


(To be continued.) 


THE MOSSES OF GUERNSEY. 
By E. D. Margquanp. 


island during the last three or four years may be of interest. 
Considering the small size of the island,—its area is under twenty- 
five square miles,—its moss-flora is an extremely rich one, no less 
than 142 species being enumerated below. And it is certain that 
many additions are yet to be made, especially among the spring 
and summer-fruiting species, for my moss collecting has been con- 
fined almost entirely to late autumn and winter. Many species of 


_ Three species in the subjoined list I have not myself seen here, 
viz., issidens exilis, Hypnum molluseum, and Bryum Mildeanum ; 
but they are recorded in the Revue Bryologique for 1887 as having 
been gathered in Guernsey by Mons. J. Cardot during a hurried 


THE MOSSES OF GUERNSEY. 77 


visit to the island i in 1885; and in Braithwaite’s Moss- Flora, vol. ii. 


for this island. The list of species given in Ansted’s “ores 
Islands is utterly worthless, and the deductions drawn i 
the author of the book (who was not the Seiaipilen of of the list) are 
perfectly absur 

Seeing that the highest elevation of land hardly exceeds 400 ft. 
above sea-level, the occurrence in the island of such mosses as Bryum 
alpinum, Grimmia cpr ne vay some other sub-alpine species, 
is rather remarka Am those most noteworthy by their 


sides of a small waterfall on the aout beilet; fruiting abundantly in 
October ; and Trichostomum (Mollia) lutescens, of which this is the 
second known n locality in the kingdom, the other station being 
Killarney. These, as well as many others of my doubtful ga therings, 
have been identified by my friend Mr. Henry Boswell, M.A., to 
whom I am much indebted for kindly assistance in my moss-work 
during many years past. It is unnecessary to encumber these 
pages with the local names of habitats and other points of use only 
to a worker on the spot; it will suffice to give a general idea of the 
pee ach distribution of each species in the island, a aaa 
more precise information will find it in a paper which will 
era in the —— oming Transactions of the Guernsey ‘Bociety of 
Natural Science 
ce e in 7 future paper to give a list of the Hepatice of 
nsey; meanwhile it may be well to place on record the 


C) 
colea sat which Mr. Boswell and I found during one of our 
rambles last August; it occurs plentifully at a original station, 
and since then I have gathered it in two or three widely-separated 
localities, so that it seems to be a fairly distributed plant in 
Guernsey. Lophocolea spicata was first discovered in England some 
five or six years ago by my old friend the late Mr. Wot Cain 
found it on the extreme western coast of Cornwall, at St. J ust, near 
the Land’s End, and I am not aware that it has been seen 
elsewhere ; so that its occurrence in Guernsey, i in a direct line from 
the south of Ireland, through West Cornwall, is of cried interest. 


Sphagnum acutifolium Ehr. Very D.majus Turn. Rar 

rare. emeyoese Bf coiilies B. & §S. 
ik rs sve microstomum Hedw. Very rare. 

Rather os Me Ge Brid. Common on 
Weissia soliihietsd Hedw. ‘to the cl 
W. mucronata Bruch. Rax C. hades Brid. Rare. 
Dicranella  heteromalla Hedw. C. subulatus Sch. Very rare. 


° 
5 


! creme 

D. scoparium L. Common. — yriform Rar 

ths or’ rephgiliol On the Lexy pou it “Local 
southern cliffs, and r 


78 THE MOSSES 
Lions nitidum Hedw. Found 
but 


P. ire um Li. Freq 


P. cuspidatum et ue Fee 
common. 
Paige fens L. Com 
rmedia Turn. a 
common 
P. Wilsoni Hook. Rare. 
P. lioat Mitt. Rare. 
erula Mitt. hee 
P. Heimii edw. Ver 
Reemeinmdielan!, &B. "Rather 
BD. gm us Hornsch. Rare 
Dinu Slexicaule Schwg. ‘Very 
rar 
richstomsn tophaceum Brid. 


7. oak. Brash: Common.— 


escens Lind (Braith. 
Fl, p. 246). Very _ 
Ff. ip Tah ey Bruch. Com 


T, littorale Mitt. Rather common. 
Benen ambigua B.& 8. Rather 


B. stroviren Sm. Frequent near 
the 


B. soins L. Very common. 
B. unguiculata Dill. Common. 
B. =inindetog Tayl. Rather com- 


p38 is Brid. Common, 
Fo Hormschcliana Sch. Very 


B, uae ae Schweg. one 
B. convoluta Hedw. Rar 
- commutata Sur. Ve i rare. 
B. squarrosa Brid. Rather com- 
mon near the gs 
B, ne Brid. Rather com- 


B. sparen Nees. Rare. 
B. ruralis L. Common on the 
sandhills. 


Ceratodon purpureus LL. Very 
_ common. 
Grimmia maritima Turn. Com- 


mon on the coast, 


OF GUERNSEY. 


G. pulvinata Dill. Rather com- 

mon. 
G. trichophylla Grev. coe 
G. leucophea Grey. Common on 
the cliffs; ; fruiting abuadagsile 

in one 
Rhacomitriun hetieas stichum, var. 
- (Grimmia afinis Braath.). 


Ptychomitrium polyphyllum Dicks. 
ery rare, 


Aygodon viridissimus Dicks. Com- 


n.—Var. rupestris. Rare 
rtoni. Very rare. 


Ulota phyllantha Brid. Common. 
Or “Stregees affine Schrad. 
Rather 
0. iitinn Boneh, Rar 
O. diaphanum Schrad. ‘Heat 
common. 
O. pulchellum Sm. Very 
Physcomitrium pyriforme a Tees 
Entosthodon ericetorum Bals. Fre- 
quent on the cliffs. 
unarta hygrometrica Li. Com- 
mon, 


si raha pomiformis L. Com- 


Philonotis Jontana Li, Very rare. 
eptobryum pyriformeL. Ingreen- 
house flower-pots. 

Bryum ventions Hornsch. Rare. 

B. murale Wils. Rather rare 

B. atropurpureum W. &M. Rather 
com 


B. Mildeanum Juratz. -(Cardot, 
1885). 


B. alpinum L. Southern cliffs, 
B. caspititium L. Rather com- 


B. “is peatdlie L. nema rare, 
B. capillare LL. Com 

B. pseudotriquetrum Hoe: Rare. 
Mnium undulatum Hedw. Rare. 
M. Host nage L. Very rare. 
M. ho 


ery common. 

M. Susciahin Hedw. Very rare. 

Aulacomnion palustre L. Rare. - 

Atrichum undulatum L. Rather 
common. 


THE MOSSES 
Pogonatum nanum Neck. Rather 


rare. 
P. aloides Hedw. More common 
than the last. 
Polytrichum formosum Hedw. 
requen 
P; piliferwm Schreb. Southern 


m Willd. Common. 

Fissidens bryoides Hedw. Very 
common. 

F. Curnowii Mitt. Found but 
once. 

F, exilis Hedw. 

F. viridulus Wils. 

F. “gone Spruce ‘Brith, M. 


sae ty 1885). 


Fl. p. 84). Very 

F. adiantoides Hodes! ’ Rather 
common. 

F. taxifolius L. 

pit at othe Hale Very 

Ropoden Smithii egos Ve 

g on a_ boulder. 

on is seer unusual to -_ this 


88 growing on ston 
Mookivs eae rape Lis anal er 


Homalia daidammasinids Schreb. 
are. 
Pterygophyllum lucens 8m. Rather 
common 
Hedw. 


Pterogonium gracile Dill. Rare. 
gi nium alopecurum Li. Rather 


Thuidium tamariscinum 
Common 


Pylaiia oddities Schreb. Very 

Iuothoiun nanee Poll. Rather 
com 

Hibiabis Ricco sericeum L. Very 

lutescens Huds. 

m 

Scleropodium illecebrum Schwg. 

Common. 


Brachythecium glareosum B. & 8. 
Ra 


B. albicuns Neck. Rather com- 
mon, 


OF GUERNSEY. 79 
B. rutabulum L. Very common. 
B. rivulare B. & 

B. plumosum 8 
Eurhynchium 


on. 


Comm 
] L. 


rtz. 
myosuroides 
F., circinatum Brid. Rather ecom- 


on. 

EF. striatum Schreb. se 

F.. crassinervium Tavl. Rar 

E. piliferum Schreb. Frequent 
. speciosum Brid. Rar 

E. Swartzii Turn. Rave, 

E. prelongum Dill. Very com- 
mon. 

E. pumilum Wils. Rather com- 
mon. 

F. Teesdalii Sm. Very rar 

Rhynchostegium tenellum Dicks. 
Rare. 

R. confertum Dicks. 


mon. 
R. megapolitanum Bland. Very 


R. ruscifolium Neck. Common. 
Plagiothecium denticulatum LL. 


Very com- 


Com mmon. 
P. Borrerianum Spruce. Rare. 
P. sylvaticum L. Rather rare. 
Amblystegium serpens L. Rather 


common. 
A. irriguum Wils. Rare 
riparium L. Rare. — Var 


longifolium. Very rare. 
Hypnum filicinum L. Common. 
Hi, cupressiforme L. Very com- 

mon.—Var. lacunosum. Com- 


mon. 
Hi. resupinatum Wils. 


common. 
H. molluscum Hedw. 


Very 
(Cardot, 


rare. 

2. stellatum ae Local and 

“ L. Very common. 
H. purum i. Very common. 

Hyloconium splendens Dill. Very 


H, geese hs: oh Ehr. Rare. 
H. — rrosum L. Rather com- 


HA, enka Rar 
H, frigustion L. Rather rare, 


80 


RUBI OF WOBURN SANDS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A. 


Tere is a sandy tract on re borders of Bedfordshire and 
Buckinghamshire, where the L. & e fro dford to 
Bletchley cuts the county boundar ae which ‘ans a soil so similar to 
that of Bournemouth, that locally the village of Woburn Sands, 
which owes its origin to the planting here of the railway station for 
Woburn (two miles away), is sometimes spoken of as the ‘“‘ Midland 
Bournemouth.” Owing to the foresight of a former Duke of Bedford, 
the low sandy hills are clothed with Scotch fir as the predominating 
tree; and itis not difficult to imagine oneself, when walking through 
the woodland rides, in the Talbot Woods or Branksome Park of the 
southern watering- -place It struck me that it would be interesting 
to compare the beainbloa of these two districts ; and on the last day 
of Pepe 1892, I was able to spend several hours studying this 
on both ay of the boundary. I will take those within the 
sate of Bue 
Bucks (24). a “These I find, after Soong ee ven Mr. Arthur 
Bennett and Mr. G. C. Druce, to be new to the county :—Rubus 
plicatus W.& N. The Rev. W. Moyle Rites Bache this had a 
peculiar look; not that he had any other name to suggest; as a 
matter of fact, I think it is simply peculiar in being shade-grown; 
conseanany the leaves lose ae plicate character ; I have speci- 
mens with just such flat leaves from De rbyshire, Norfolk, and 
nae y. The sails is not at all untypical. — R. nemoralis P. J. 
Muell, (the ordinary wmbrosus, auct.). In woodland, south of the 
village. — R. pyramidalis Kalt. Wooded side of a wet lane. The 
specimens are - Aare of the usual thick clothing under the leaf, 
owing to the wet and shady situation; but Mr. Rogers arrived at 
the same conclusion, independently, that the plant was R. pyrami- 
dalis. There were a few bushes visible; probably more in the wood. 
—R. Drejeri G. Jensen. Named for me by the Rev. W. Moyle 
ers. “Only one bush was noticed. It struck me at once as a 
species I was not famili - with, na cg = the living state.— 
R. rudis Weihe. Only noticed in : two or three bushes. 
This is a typical form of the plant, ane “Frentionl with the Oxford- 
shire material which has been issued in Fasc. I. of the Set of British 
ubi.—On a form of the hirtus group, fonand in fair quantity in the 
woodland just south of the village, Dr. W. O. Focke writes as 
follows :—‘‘ R. flaccidifolius P. J. Muell., I believe. It is dis- 
tinguished from all forms of the hirtus group by its sepals reflexed 
in fruit.” I am not aware that this has been noted for Britain 
before.—R. dumetorum W. & N. In hedgerows. — R. Balfourianus 
Blox. A good tvpeenl form of this variable species; hedgerows, 
south of the village. 
Besides these I noticed R. Idaus L., in the woods; R. rusticanus 
Merc., R. leucostachys Schleich., and R, Raduta Weihe, by road- 
oot already recorded ; also R. pieepcee'y us W. & abun dant on 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. $1 


I understand from Mr. Bennett, has not been placed on record for the 
county, but Mr. Druce tells me he has it from another part of Bucks. 

ere I may mention that in College Wood, near ive Horwood, 
in a clay district of Bucks, I found the next day R. adornatus P. J. 
Muell., named for me by the Rev. W. Moyle Hower’, ‘and very fine 
R. sohigasil Lindl., in some profusion ; both additional to Top. Bot. 
ed. 2. 


Beps (30).—Of the brambles observed in = Mr. A. Bennett 
tells me that those rat to the county are . Lindleianus Lees, 
R. TN. 4 lat auct. rusticanus R. macrophyllus 

labrate form: rather harsh eaies ‘the leaf, R. Radula 


side 

: y Guise. In of these esteemed hedgerows a 
- ristatie. Sich took my attsndiea, which had the aspect of R. 

cami it was, however, perfectly barren, and by degrees I 
ptred at the conclusion that it ‘ans R. Lindleianus x susniennles 
@ view in which the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers entirely concu 

n comparing this list of the brambles of Woburn lands with 

those of Bournemouth, I am struck by the dissimilarity of the two 
lists. In fact, only the most ubiquitous of our British brambles 
occur at both places. 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALGA OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


By Erne §S. Barron, 
(Continued from p. 65.) 


aan none Suhr. Seal Island, Challenger! Shore of 
Kaffraria, 9 
Geogr. Distr. Mauritius. 

B. arricana Aresch. Saldanha Bay to False Bay, jide Areschoug. 

B. pLumosa oe Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape Point, Boodle! 
Camps Bay, Tyson 

gr. Distr. Adlantio. Australia. West Indies. 

B. setacea Hering. (? incl. B. agent gg Kiitz.). Kei Mo 5 
Flanagan! Port Natal, Krauss! No. 2 (I have not seen 
authentic specimen of B. myosuroides Kit , but from his des etip- 
tion and figure, Tab. Phye. vol. vi., I aes but little heslintion! in 
pronouncing it to be B. saiiiven Hering.). 

Cauterpa Houmesiana G. Murr. Algoa Bay, Becker! Kei Mouth, 
Flanagan! 

C. mg J. Ag. Algoa Bay, Becker! Kei Mouth, Flanagan! 

C, uigutata Harv. Simons Bay, Challenger! Kalk Bay, Boodle! 
False lay: Medfitan Cape Agulhas, Krauss! Hohenack! Meer- 
algen, Nos. 206, 480. Cape Recife, Bowerbank! Algoa Bay, Eck- 
lon, Cau. Sutherland | Bowerbank! Kei Mouth. Fla 

JougnaL or Borany.—Vou. 31. (Marcu, 1898.] G 


82 MARINE — OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


Natal, Gueinzius! Cape, te ee oa exsice. 
No. 28; Reliquie Brebiss.! Ser. 2 

C. cuavirera J. Ag. ena Sipe ‘Natal, Gueinzius | 

Geogr. Distr. Tropical se 

C. cnemntrzia Lam. Port Natal, fide Areschoug. 

Geogr. Distr. Brazil. West Indies. Indian Ocean ng 

Coprum tomentosum Ag. From mouth of Olifants River to 
Port Natal, Drege. Table Bay, Krauss, Boodle! Sea Point, Boodle 
False Bay, Reynolds! Algoa Bay, Ecklon. ne Mout, Flanagan! 
Natal, Krauss. Cape, Brand! Gueinzius | Hb. 

Geogr. Distr. General, 


C. renve Kiitz. nee pi rear Hohenack ! weeds 3 No. 496. 

Geogr. Distr. Red § 

C. sLoneatum Ag. Car ape, Pappe, fide Kiitzing. I sae 
specimens of this plant from the Cape. It is probable that t shade 
recorded are CU. Lindenbergit Bind. See De Toni, Sylloge _— 
vol. i. p. 496. 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Mediterranean. Prec 

C. Liypenseren Bind. eee Hb. Dickie 

geile Distr. N. Pacific ? 

C. yLopium Aresch. Port agent Jide Areschoug. Algoa 
Bay, HD. Dickie ! Cape Morgan, Flana 

C. ARIOIDES Harv. Gspe Point, saath 

~~ Datta Australia 

HatiMEDA CUNEATA Heting. inel, H, obovata Kiitz.). Algoa Bay, 
Sutherland | Port Alfred, Carr! Natal, Krauss. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 


Il1Il.—PHMOPHYCEA. 
UCACER. 

IFURCARIA BRASSICHFoRMIS Stackh. (= Pycnophycus brassice- 
Jormis Kiitz., incl. P. sisymbrioides Kiitz.). Cape Town, Burchell ! 
Cape Point, Boodle! Sea Point, Tyson! Muysen berg, Harvey ! 
Table Bay, Pappe! Algoa nh Holub! Natal, Gueinzius! Cape, 
Hohenack.! Reeve! Seott Ellio 

B. tusercunatus Stackh. fe Pycnophycus Janene Kiitz.). 
Table fas Wenek | ee Agulhas, Hohenack.! Knysna, Krauss. 
ape, Harvey b, 
se ale cs North J iain 
B. TUS = eae ices. Levieatus Kitz. Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack Ne. No. 320. 
TUS ‘A Cape, Ecklon. 
Gains Dire North Atlantic, Aretic and Baltic. 
F. vesicutosus L, Cape, Ecklon. 
es Distr. Northern seas. Australia. 

- constrictus Harv. Camps Bay, Tyson! Table Bay, Harvey! 
Pappe! Green Point, Farsoy’ Gaye e, "Hb. Die Dickie! This iat 
has been placed in several different genera by authors, i.e., Ca arpo- 
glossum, Fucodium, and Carpephylium, In several points it resembles 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF Sep HOPE. 83 


Pela ate but for Pom ° present I retain Harvey’s practice, and 
keep it in the genus 

rater TRIQUETRA ane Cape, fide Bory. Cape, Koenig. 

C. ertcores J. Ag. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack, 

Geogr. Distr. North Atlantic. Mediterranean. Adriatic. 

Scaseria Acarpan Grey. Natal, Krauss. 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tasmania. 

CakPoPHYLLUM scaLARE Suhr. Cape, Drege. 

Conrarinia austrauis Endl. et Dies. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! 

o. 218. Port Natal, Gueinzius, Péppig. Cape, Drege. This may 
Goethly be the same as Carpophyllum scalare Suhr, but as I have 
not seen the type- a of that plant, I must leave this point 
undecided for the pre In any case, however, the name 
nai inia rust fall, as ‘that had been previously used for a genus 
of red alge. 

Sarcassum ELEGANS Suhr. Cape, Dr ge. 

S. tenpicerum Ag. Port Pat Krauss. 

Geogr. Pim Warm Atlan 

S. inctsrrotium Ag. aliscahe ‘Bars Ecklon. Table Bay, Wenek! 
Kalk Bagi Boodle! Pappe! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 219. 
Mouth of Zwart Mere irelegell Knysna, Krauss. Plettenberg 
Bay, H. D. Horne! Algoa Bay, Holub! Cape, Menzies, 
Dickie! Harvey ! aki 
NULLIPORA = CaRPACANTHUS GLOMERaTUs Kiitz. Table Bay, 


w. 

Geogr. Distr. West Indies. 

8. nETERopHyLLUM Ag. Algoa Bay, Hb. Dickie! Cape Colony, 
Hb. Holmes! Port Natal, Krauss 

8. tonerronrum Ag. Simons Bay, Pappe! Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack.! No.169, Steel! Sar Alfred, Slavin! Natal, T. Cooper! 
Cape, Hb. R. Brown Harvey |, 

Geogr. Distr. Indian Ocean and New Zealand. 

8. VULGARE a Knysna, Boodle! Algoa Bay, Ecklon; Hb. 
Dickie! Cape, Harvey! 

B. snautencnee Port Natal, Krauss 

Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic. West Indies. 

8. aFFINE J. ky. Cape, Hehenack.! Meeralgen, No. 865, Cape, 


W. Ferguson ! 
Geogr. Distr. West Indies, 
S. pyrirorme Ag. Port _ Krauss. 


Case: Distr. Indian Oce 

8. uinrouium J. Ag. Swe a Ecklon 

oo Distr. Mediterranean (Canary Islands, rare). West 
dies 


8. Baccirerum Ag. vee Hb. Dickie! Drege! 

Geogr. Distr. Warm oceans. 

TURBINARIA DECURRENS Bark, Port Natal, Krauss. 

Geogr. Distr, Indian Ocean, Malay Archipelago, China Seas, 
GQ 


84 MARINE ALGA OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


SPLACHNIDIACES. 

Spracuniprum ruGcosum Grev. Seal Island, Challenger! Sea 
Point, Boodle! False Bay, eid Knysna, Natal, Krauss. Cape, 
Fee Brown | Koenig, Drege, Tyson ! 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. New Zealand. 


DictTyoTaces. 
Dicryota picnotoma J. Ag. Cape Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, 
hig stocaas Bay, Ecklon. sion Natal, Drege, Krauss! Gueinzius! 
LEXA J, Ag. pe Agulhas, Hohenack.! Meeralgen, 


‘Geogr. Distr. Warm and iar oceans. 
. LinEaRIS Ag. Port Natal, Kraus. 
Geogr. Distr. iene and teighiboariig Atlantic. West 
Indies. [Red Se 
D. nzvosa J. he “Plotteiibers Bay, Horne! Algoa Bay, Ecklon, 
Hb. Dickie! mg ey to Port Natal, Krauss. Kei Mouth, 
Flanagan! Cape, P 
eogr. Distr. West Indies. 
D. rascrora Lam. Cape Agulhas, Hohenacker! Meeralgen, 
No, 512. 
Geogr. Distr. Mediterranean, Red Sea, West Indies. 
D. sorta J. Ag. Kalk Bay, Pappe! 
D. venticutata Ag. Cape, Hohenacker! Meeralgen, No. 511. 
D. trrvrata J. Ag. Kalk Bay, Hb. Trin. Coll. Dublin! 


Pappe’s writing is clearly a form of D. nevosa Z. Ag., under 
which name I neve therefore included that record. 
Geogr 


D. Piva Kiitz. Kalk Bay, Pappe. 

Species inquirenda, 

D, ponycarpa Se Simons Bay, Pappe 
ONAR upta Ag. Table Bay, Wenek | Milk Bay (False 
Bay), B. MeMillan! Cape pees Hohenack.! Meeralgen, No. 156. 
Plettenberg Bay, H. D. Horne! Algoa Bay, Ecklon, Holub! 
Burchell, Lib, Dickie! Port Alfred, W. Carr! Kei Mouth, Flana- 
gan | Cape Colony, ex Hb, Holmes! Port Natal, Dr. Stanger | 
No. 8974; Krauss. Ca: ape, Pappe! Zeyher! Hb. Shuttleworth! Ares- 

choug, Phye. extraeurop. exsicc. No: 58. 

eon ae Distr. Teneriffe, Indian Ocean, Tasmania, and New 


Z. puumeea Aresch. Natal ei Jide Areschoug. 


Z. MULTIFIDA Harv. ( = rveyana Pappe and Phycopteris 
Harveyana Kiitz.). Kalk Bay, Pepe Cape, Harvey! Hohenack. ! 
(To be continued,) 


85 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 
COMPILED BY 
Wituram A. Crarke, F.L.S. 
(Continued from vol. xxx., p. 345.) 


s torminalis Ehrh. Beitr. vi. 92 (1791). 1597. ‘In 
Kent it groweth in great aboundance, especially about Southfleete 
and Gravesend.”’—Ger. 1288. 

P. Aria Sm. Fi. Brit. ii. 534 ee wages “In Angliz 

ay gree sylvosis frequentem videas.”’— ; 

cuparia Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 45 a7siy. 1562. “«Groweth 
in moyst woddes and it is called in Northumlande a rowne tre, &c.” 
—Turn. ii. 143. 

P. communis L. Sp. Pl. thy lee 1562. ‘‘ Wylde Pere 
tre... gee knowen.”’—Turn 

z. s L. Sp. Pl. 479 (i768), 1562. ‘Malus sylvestris 
realled) i in ae oa countre a Crab tre in y® North countre a 
scarbtre.’’—Turn. ii. 47, bac 

Mespilus PES A Sp. Pl. 478 oe Et te 
times in aalies among briars and bramble ~ in 
the hedges betwixt Hampsted heath and Highgate. Mare tt, 77. 

Crategus ah desearrage: L. Sp. Pl. 477 (1753). 1562. “Our 
como hawthorn.”—Turn. ii. 73, back. ‘‘Oxyacantha ... Angli 
May dicunt.’”’—Lob. Adv, 443 (1570). 

Cotoneaster integerrimus Med. Bot. 85 (1793). CC. vulgaris 
Lindl. Syn. 104 (1829). 1828. ‘On the limestone cliffs of the 
Great Ormshead, Carnarvonshire, in various places. . Wil- 
son, 1825.”—Sm. Engl. Fl. iv. 268. From a note on the E. B. 
drawing, it appears that Wilson first noticed it in 1821 or oe 
Mr. J. W. Griffith perhaps discovered it in 1783; see H. B. 8. 2 

Saxifraga oppositifolia L. Sp. Pl. 402 yee 1677. 
o a ae i a ” Yorkshire.—Ray, Cat. ed. 2, 2' 

S. nivalis L. Sp. Pl. 401 Cry 1641. cen Mere. Bot. 
pars alt. "38 ” Sedum serratum 

S. stellaris L. Sp. Pl. 400 (738) Yeon! eas the moyst 
Rockes at Snowdon.’’—Johns. Mere. Bot. par 

S. Geum L. Sp. Pl. 401 (1753). 1806. og ade by Mr. 
J. T. Mackay on a mountain near Dingle, in the County of Kerry, 
Ireland, in September, 1804.”— 

umb Pl. ed. 2, 574 (1762). 1697. ‘Grows 
plentifully here with us of 7 and, on a mountain called the 


ie gg in ee —Dr. T. Molyneux in Phil. Trans. xix. 510. 
Ss. s L. Sp. Pl. oa (1753). 1724. Gy ound by Dr. 
Kingstone on on. Knotaort -moor, Cheshire.” —R. Syn. iii. 855. 


S. aizoides L. Sp. Pl. 403 ve 1670. vi On the sides of 
elig agp ors hill ‘(Yorksh.) . : . . » in Westmoreland.” — 
Ray, Cat. 279 


Ss. tridactylites L. Sp. Pl. 404 (1753). 1597. ‘“ Upon the 
bricke wall in weryniy a [London] belonging to the Harle of 
Southampton.’’—Ger 


86 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


S. rivularis L. Sp. Pl. 404 (1753). 1800. ‘On Ben Nevis, 
Scotland. Dr. Townson.’’—Sm. FI. Brit. ii. 454 

S. cernua L. Sp. Pl. 403 (1753). 1794. “ Amongst the eg 
on the summit of Ben Lawers.”—James Dickson in Trans. Lin 
Soe. ii. 290. 

S. granulata L. Sp. Pl. 402 a 1568. ‘In diverse 
places of inane Turn. iii. 67 g.). 

S. ceespitosa L. Sp. Pl. 404 (1758). 1800. “On alpine rocks 
above Lake Idwell, in Carnarvonshire, rare. J. W. Griffith, Esq., 
in Herb. Soc. c. Linn.”—Sm. Fl. Brit. ii. 4 

8. detiniona Ehrh. 1798. * Gathered wild on the rocks 
of Cwm Idwell, besaa ya North Wales, by Mr. Griffith, in 
the end of May last.”—E. B. 4 

poe hypnoides L. Sp. Pl. 105 (1758). 1640. ‘On the Moun- 

s of ere TN iere with us, as Mr. Hosket [Hesketh] told us.”— 
Park, Theat 
Chryso nium oppositifoium I. ere EY 398 he): 1570. 
‘In Anglie humentibus sax —Lob. Adv. 267. 
“ About Bath and Wels,” &c. ee! , 698. 

C. alternifolium L. Sp. Pl. 398 hee = 1666. ‘Near 
Hedley, cine ppt Mr. Brown.”—Merrett, 109. 

Parnassia palustris L. Sp. Pl. 76 (1758). 1597. “In 
Lansdall aud Atay in the north part of England; at Doncaster,”’ 
&c.—Ger. 6 

ibes api L. Sp. Pl. 200 (1758). 1688. “In agro 
cha invenit D. Dodsworth.’’—Ra ay, Hist. ii. 1486. 
brum Pl. 200 (1753). 1568. “By a waters 
side at “Clo ouer in ‘Somerset shyre in the possession of Maister 
Horner.”’—Turn. iii. 2 
. nigrum Lyi Bp.’ Pl. th eek 1660. ‘By the rivers 
side at Abington” (Cambs). 139. 

Tillea muscosa L. Sp. PI. 199 (1758). 1775. “On Dray- 
ton Heath and several other places near Norwich, in great plenty. 
First examined and ascertained by the Rev. el [Henry] Bryant, 

in 1766.”—Rose’s Elements of Botany, App. 4 

Cotyledon Umbilicus L. Sp. Pl. 429 ( (1758), Bk “In 
welles and divers places of Summerset shyre.”-—Turn. ii. 169. 

chen ta cop. Fl. Carn. ed. st ee arn, S. Rhodiola 
DC. (1805). 1597. ‘Upon sundry m in the north part 
a England, especially in a place called Soran Fels.’”’—Ger. 


s Bor eget “ oe Pl. 480 (1758). 1597. “ Plentifully in 

. - Englande.”— 

“8. villosum L ‘Sp. “Ph 432 Skeet 1666. ‘On the North 
side of Ingleborough hil ”—Merrett 

8. album ngs * Pi. - (1758. 1634. “In locis saxosis et 
asperis.”——Johns. Mere. Bot. 67, “Very plentifully on many of 
og tate’ d coh in Siti; in the Isle of Ely ’’ (Cambs.).— 

S. anglicum Huds. ii. 196 (1778). 1670. “In sterilioribus 
ra age ary a Yarmouth ad Dunwich plurimum observavimus.”’ 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 87 


S. acre L. Sp. Pl. 482 (1753). 1538, “Sedum minus puto esse 
herbam quam vulgus appellat acs aut Stoncrop.”—-Turn. Lib. 

S. rupestre Lb. Sp. Pl. 481 (1753). 1666. ‘Sedum Divi 
Vincentii N. D. Mr. Goodyer. ee 111. 

S. Forsterianum ae EK. B. t. 1802. 1807. ‘ Gathered in 
1806 by E. Forster, Jun., on a rock at the ap of the Rhydoll near 
the one s-bridge, Cardiganshire .’——K. 

osera rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 281 (1758). 1568. ‘Rosa 
wslinas is a litle small herbe that groweth in mossey groundes and in 
fennes and watery mores. *__Turn. iii, 79. 

D. anglica Huds. ii. 185 (1778). 1640. ‘‘ This was sent me 
by Mr. Zanche Silliard an Apothecarie of Dublin in Ireland, 
which sort wee have growing by Ellestmere in Shropshire by the 
waysides (the anor of Dr. Coote).””—Park. 

D. intermedia Hayne. 1660. ‘On Hinton moor’ (Cambs. 
—R. C. C. 1389 (1660). ae may be the Ros et foliis oblonyis of 
Johns. Mere. Bot. p. 65 (1 

Hippu uris vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 4 (1753). 1597. ‘In waterish 
places.”"—Ger. 957. Near Sandwich, Kent.—-Johnson, ‘‘ Kent,’’ p. 


23 (1632 

Myr eo e ey llum verticillatum L. Sp. Pl. 992 (1753). 1660. 
‘‘In the rivulet Stoure by the little Islet ... above the Paper 
mills ’’ (Cambs, ).— 

M. spicatum L. "Sp. Pl. 992 (1753). 1640. “In our 
land.”’—-Park. Theatr. 1258. ‘In the river [Cam] about Stret- 
ham eee: ie o. C. 99 (1660). 

24. ‘In foss 


M. DC. Fi. Fr. 17 
prope Lien Bridge haud procul a Hedinw. J. Bobart ps ocr i 
—-Ray Syn 
Callitriche pants (aggregate), L. Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 6 (1762). 
1597. An ‘‘ herbe of small ean - floteth upon the water 
called . ihdae! Starwoort.’’——Ger. 
C. umnalis L. Sp. Pa ae rs é are 1830. ‘ Llyn 
Maelog, Anglesea Mr. W. W ——Hoo r. Fl. ed. i. 884, 
um Salicaria L. Sy PL 446 A788). 1548. * groweth 
by oer feiss -Turn. Names, E. ij back. ‘‘ Under the Bishops 


39 


house wall at Lambeth neere the water ae wre ’-Ger. 388. 

L. Hyssopifolia L. Sp. Pl. 447 (17 1633. ‘‘ Found by 
my friend Mr. Bowles at Dorchester in  Oxfordahive.” Johnson. 
—Ger. em. 5 

Peplis Portula L. Sp. Pl. 332 (1753). 1632. Johnson, 


e 
Kent,” p. 33. Hawes Clapham heath and — and 
betweene Kentish Towne and Hampstead.’’—Ger, e 

Epilobium angustifolium L. Sp. Pl. 347 re, 1597. 
‘© In Yorkshire in a place called the Hooke.’’—Ger. 

E. hirsutum L. Sp. Pl. 847 (1753). 1597. igs honed 
waters (but not in the waters) i in all places for the most pa: 
Ger. 388. 


E. parviflorum Schreb. Spic. 146 (1771). 1629. Johnson 
‘ Kent,’ p. 8 (‘‘ Lysimachia siliquosa minor hirsuta ”’ 
E.montanum L. Sp. Pl. 3848 (1753). 1570, «Tn Anglia 


88 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 
observatur ... locis . - umbrosis saxosis aut minus udis.’’—Lob. 
dv. 145. 


. lanceolatum Seb. & Maur. Fl. Rom. = 138 cee 1847. 
Frome Glen Stapleton near Bristol. Mr. K. Thwaites ; 
sent to Bot. Soc. of Sonera 1847. aa ii. es 

E. roseum Schreb. Spic. 147 (1771). 1798. “ Primum in 
Anglia a cel. Curtisio i Lambe th Marsh in comitatu Surr. detecta.” 
—-Symons, Synopsis, 

E. tetragonum eaten L. Sp. Pl. 348 (1753). 1634. 
= eee siliquosa glabra minor Bauh. In humidis saxosis.” 
—Johns. Mere. Bot. p. 49. 

E. ists scurum Schreb. Ht eat (1771). Rc ““Wyken, 
Warwickshire and Ilfracombe, D ——Bab. i n. N. H. ser. 2, 
Xvii. 243. [The “« B. virgatum ” forall se oie by Dr. Deakin 
may have eae this.——Florigr. Brit. p. 548. 

E. palustre L. Sp. Pl. 848 (1753). 1660. “On Teversham 
Moor ” FCanba), ——R. C. C. 98. But see Ger. em. p. 479. 

alsinefolium Vill. Prosp. 45 (1779). 1677. “In the 
rivulets on the sides of Cheviot hills.”—-Ray, Cat. ed. ii. 194, 


- anag 
mountains of Scotland: Morne and “Spree &e. ”—Babington, 
in Ann. & & Mag. N. H. ser. 2. xvii. 312 

E. alpinu p- Pl. 848 (1758). Bett. On” Ben 

Lomond, about two- thirds of the way up.”—Lightf. Fl. Scot. 199. 

udwigia apetala Walt. Fl. Carolin. 89 (1788). (Isnardia 
palustris L.). 1666. ‘Ina great eae neer the Moor at Peters 
field, Hamshire, Mr. Goodyer.”—Merr 

Circa lutetiana L. Sp. Pl. : rss} 1597. ** Groweth in 
obscure and darke places.”—Ger. 

ina L. Sp. Pl. 9 (1758). “1768. ‘“‘ Ad radices montium 
in Comitatibns Westmorlandico Kboracensi, &e., circa Dallam 
Tower in agro Westmorlandico.’’—Huds. i. 10. 

Bryonia dioica ti Fl. Austr. ii. 59 (1774). 1538. “Am- 
pelos leuce . . . . anglis 8 Bryoni aut wylde nepe.’—Turn. Lib. 
a Groweth in many states of Englande.”—Turn. Names, B yj, back 

54 cn 
Hydrocotyle vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 284 (1753). 1562. 
Shepekyllinge penny grasse that groweth in merishe and 
waterye groundes tie ce: Herb. ii. 
ryngium maritimum L. Sp. Pl. 288 (1753). 1548. 
ie Aisi ously in Eiiplando by the sea syde.”’—Turn, 
“gh 
ampestre L. Sp. Pl. 233 At 1670. ‘On a rock 
which fou deabynd to the ferry from Plymouth over into Cornwall.” 
—Ray, Cat. ey Found by Ray on July 7, 1662 (Ray, Iter.). 
uropea L. Sp. Pl. 235 (1758), 1548. ‘ Groweth 
communely in ‘wean "—Turn. Names, H iiij. 


(To be continued.) 


89 


SHORT NOTES. 


Vicia BiTHyNicA IN Hampsuire.—I found several Nii of this 
species, in flower and fruit, on the sides of a ditch in tiv: 
field at Bridgemary, near Gosport, on the east side of the Fareham 
Road, on Sept. 17, 1889. I sent some to Mr. Townsend, who con- 
firmed my identification, It had been reported from Hants by the 

ate Mr. B but Mr. Townsend thought the evidence in- 
sufficien paay: . E. Ketsatu. 

Rusvus ammosius Focke in E. Ross.—In July, 1891, I met 
with a few bushes of a haat near lin but pita’ distinct, 
growing upon shingle by the Carron river, about three miles from 
Bonar Bridge. Suspecting it to be the above, I carefully compared 
fresh specimens with the description in Synopsis Ruborum Germania, 
and found them to agree in all essential atealads amin slightly 
exceeding the styles, petioles distinctly channelled above near their 
base, leaves frequently septenate, &c.), only differing by the some- 
what stout prickles which may very likely be due to the effects of 
frequent inundations. The Rev. W. Moyle Rogers has, after some 
hesitation, endorsed my opinion. ay: Dr. Focke has disallowed 
the Perth specimens so named by Prof. Babington, which I should 
judge, from what I have heard about them, to be very different 
from the above-named form, it seems desirable to place the occur- 

HALL. 


rence of the true plant on record._—_Epwarp 
(p- —With reference to the altitude 
attained by this plant, I may mention that hered it on 


the range between the Rieder Alp and the Eggisch-horn, in Upper 
Valais, at fully 7000 ft., a couple of thousand feet higher than its 
apparent range in Norway. —Epwarp 8. Marsan 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


English Botany : Supplement to the Third Edition. Part Ill. Com- 
piled and illustrated by N. E. Brown. London: Bell. 5s. 


Wirs this number, which completes a volume, Mr. N 
Brown’s connection with the Supplement to eigen Botany comes 
to an end. He has brought the work down to the end of Dip- 
sace@, and now hands it over to Mr. hae) Bennett. “We noticed 
the first part of the Supplement at some length in last year’s 
Journal (p. 250), and see no reason to alter the al conclusions 
then expressed, but a word or two on the present number may 
looked for by British botanists. 

Mr. Brown has devoted a good deal of attention to the forms of 
Pyrus Aria, and those who know these difficult plants will be cn 
to judge how far he has thrown light upon them. He dispos 
summarily of the hybrid ig ae He also writes nearly four jin 
about Saxifraga hirta, but here, as in very many other instances, 
we have to complain that he has set examined the material ready 


90 REPORT OF THE CONIFER CONFERENCE, 


would have settled the matter. Dr. Syme’s herbarium, although, 
by Mr. Hanbury’s courtesy, always accessible to botanists, has, we 
believe, not once been consulted by Mr. Brown. 

t is not only with regard to plants which have exercised the 


t 
lised,” and a parently not worth a description; while of Selinwn 
Carvifolia, the write says —and the sente is e 
of his style :— «The t discovery (in 1880) of this plant in 


may have been mistaken for Peucedanum palustre ; still, had this 


h 
urnal will remember that Mr. F. A. Lees dealt with the 


an undertaking on which he has expended a great deal of time and 

trouble, but for which he is manifestly unsuited. Mr, Arthur 

Bennett, on the other hand, stands in the first rank of critical 
ri anists ; 


which h 
expresses his opinions lend additional weight to his conclusions, 
and his continuation of this work will be looked for with very great 
interest. € trust that he will not waste time and space over 
trivial questions of nomenclature, the consideration of which is 
entirely out of place in a Supplement to English Botany. 


Report of the Conifer Conference held at the Chiswick Gardens, October, 
1891. (Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, xiv.) 
London: 117, Victoria St. 1892. 8vo, pp. 558. Price 15s. 6d. 


_ Ovr informa 
timber for profit, as well as our knowledge of its life-history and 


conditions in health and disease, comes to us almost entirely from 
the Contin i 


increasing the general inte 


* See Journ. Bot., 1882, 139, 284; Report Bot. Record Club, 1881-2, p. 216, 


REPORT OF THE CONIFER CONFERENCE, 91 


ose who are engaged in the care of te that the Royal Horti- 
cultural i arranged for a Conference on Conifers. The 
volume before us contains the ate of papers read at that Con- 
oe nee. It “may be divided into three parts:—(1st) Papers by 


e 
culture; and (8rd) some lists of coniferous trees grown in th 
United Kingdom, to which is added a similar catalogue by Professor 
Carl Hansen of those of Denmark. 

The first of these divisions, containing papers by Dr. Maxwell T. 
Masters, Professor Marshall Ward, Mr. W. T. Blandford, and Dr. 


Masters begins his opening address with a brief history of the group 

from our knowledge of the remains in the Devonian rocks; 

proceeds with a sketch of their method of growth, and co oncludes 

with some notes on the prekthintse of these trees into Great 
t 


Douglas, Hartweg, and Tacnene mari have done so much for th 
furtherance of the interest in Conifers in Britain, were Fellows and 
officers of the Horticultural sme 2 A necessary warning note is 
sounded on the danger of not keeping an adequate supply of tim bee 
in this ort by failing "ts re-plant old forests when cut down, 
and not protecting those which exist. 

e important subject of diseases of Conifers is dealt with b 
Professor Marshall Ward and Mr. W. A. Blandford, sod renee: of 
whom treats of those eee from the attacks of in 
Ward considers — class of Conifers separately, and cieaumeibion the 


and a short account is given of the ascomycetous fungus (Dasyscypha 
Willkommit) causing it. The writer mentions as a prevention 
this malady the planting of sound trees, aks whether by that 

means athe use of what nurserymen term “healt thy seed,” or acy 
seeing that the young ait have no canker spots when planted out 
in the woods, does not appear. This point as to the belief which 
is so very general among foresters, a the canker is fostered and 
intensified by the propagation of young plants from seed produced 
by diseased trees, is noticed in a bioet eultiatle paper—both from a 
scientific and practical poimt of view—by Dr. A. W. Somerville, 


g the papers by ftcstical men ce s one by Mr, A. D 
Webster, os is a believer in the Sates of * good seed”’ as a 


92 LA TRUFFE, 


Japanese Conifers from the pen of Mr. H. J. Vei 
has done so much good work in the introduction of members of this 
group to England. 

The latter half of the report contains a list of all the Conifers 
and Taxads cultivated in Great Britain, with their synonyms by 
Dr. Masters. We note that Torrey is given as the authority for 
Sequoia gigantea, but from the recent writings of Sereno Watson we 

ow that Decaisne was the first to give this name to the mammoth 
The volume closes with a most interesting record of the 


bartonshire, is mentioned. 
_ At is a pity that the question of nomenclature was not taken 
in hand. It would have been a great gain if—among the other 


a 
ve put straight. The report, as a whole, reflects great 
credit on the labours of its editors, the Rev. W. Wilks and Mr. 


J. B. Carrutuers. 
La Truf. Par Av. Oxarty (Bailliére et Fils, Paris, 1892, pp. 
xil., 370, 8vo, 15 tab. col. Price 14 fr.). 
Ir is but four years since a hand little volume bearing this 


title was issu y the same publishers in their Bibliothéque 
Bainane Contemporaine, i e, erry de la 


and of a 
cordial welcome from students of the truffle, Since the late Mr. 


one in country seems to have taken up the 
Tuberacee as a special study, and it may be of service to throw 


SAMOS. 93 


out the suggestion here that the order offers many attractions to a 
botanist in the southern scones having sufficient leisure to under- 
take a small, well-marked gro Truffle hunting is not without 
its excitements, whether anenaed in the company of dog, pig, or 
by the unaided human instinct; and there is always the subject of 
truffle- pe for experiment, with a glitterig reward for the prac- 
tically successful. 

This volume is a second one oes one published in 1869, 
and is . great advance on the original. It is profes sedly 
not written specially for savants, ‘“ ees pour tout le monde,” 
aero cna it does not fail in exact information and in minute 
informa such as savants demand, while at the same time it is 
Hon rag as pppoe books so seldom are, in such fashion as to in- 
terest all who choose to read. In this respect, indeed, it is a very 
happy effort on the part of the author. He begins with a history 


then describes in detail the species of Tuber, Terfezia, Tirmania, an 
Algerian genus so named by — author, and Gautieria LAA St 
the Mexican truffle. In the next chapter the trees and ot 


countries productive of truffles, &c. The dev slepniee of trufiles 
signs of their existence, culture in its wide conditions, collection 

by aid of pigs, dogs, or singlehanded, are interestingly treated of, and 
e commercial statistics, alimentary and other qualities, aon ical 


O 
scientific populer literature attain a 
book, which gives in clear mere inguage a a oneancie good 


ie of its subject, without any of the aneous marvels 
dissolying views of the universe so stupidly pcos tos necessary 
G. M. 


for the British public. 


1 e, a a a et ——— par le 
Samos: mops cone ogiqu coos ara a ean eda 


et Witu1aM eh Avec 13 aie par av: Cusin. 
oe 4G. Bridel 1892. 4to, pp. 99. 


show some result of his visit. Sibtho 
plants, and Dumont d’Urville in 1819 collected 62 species Shute, 


94 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


in the Academy in 1886, nothing further seems to have been done 
until Dr. Forsyth Major made three visits in 1886-8, the results of 
which form the basis of the present volume. 

O new species—Corydalis integra and Erodium Vetteri—are 
described by Messrs. Barbey and Major, and a new Rubus—R. 
Aigeus—by M. Louis Favrat. 


must be said in praise of the very beautiful plates, on which are 
red the above-mentioned novelties, and some of the more 
interesting species. 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Bot. Centralblatt. (Nos. 5-8). — G. Holle, « Zur Anatomie der 
Saxifrageen und den systematische Verwerthung ’ (concl.). 

Bot. Gazette (Jan.). — J.D. Smith, ‘ Undeseribed plants from 
Guatemala’ (Sloanea pentagona, Aanthoxylum foliolosum, Ouratea 
. He 


Lindstrém, ‘ Bogsta sockens Fanerogamer och Ormbunkar.’ — K, 
i ite.’ — G. Lagerheim, 
‘ Phaocystis, noy. gen., grundadt fra Tetraspora Poucheti Harv.’ 


Entwickelung der Samenschalen einiger Lythrarieen’ (1 plate).— 

(Feb. 16). ‘FF. Hildebrand, « Ueber einige Fille von Abweichungen 

in der Ausbildung der Geschlechter bei Pflanzen.’ — F. Kienitz- 

a : Protoplasmastrémungen und Stoffwanderung in der 
anze.’ 


Bull. Soc. Bot. France (xxxix, Comptes rendus 5: Feb. 1),— 
A. Franchet, ‘Les genres Ligularia, Senecillis, Cremanthodium. et 
leurs espéces dans ]’Asie centrale et orientale.’—D. Clos, ‘Du genre 
Rhinanthus et du R. Crista-galli.’—M. Gandoger, ‘ Note sur l’ Erigeron 
Jrigidus,’ — A, Chabert, ‘Quatriéme Note sur la flore d’ Algérie.’— 
J. A. Battandier, « Sur quelques plantes récoltées 4 Biskra’ (Echium 
horridum, sp. n.). — L. Trabut, « Herborisation dans le massif de 
l’Aurés,’ 

_ Bull, Torrey Club (Jan.). — W. W. Rowlee, ‘ Akenes and Seed- 
lings of ghey ” (5 plates).—A. A, Heller, ‘ Asplenium Bradleyi.’ 
—H. H. Rusby, ‘ Senecio Robbinsii ’ (1 plate). 

Erythea (Feb.). — T, Howell, « Rearrangement of American 
Portulacee.’ —E. L. Greene, « Observations on Composite.’ —§. B 
Bagahs S pack ioeeny 
—J.G. 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 95 


Gardeners’ Chronicle (Feb. 11).—H. Boseawen, ‘ Banier Island, 
N. Zealand.’—J. G. Baker, ‘ Synopsis of Canna’ (contd.). 

Journal de Botanique (Feb. 1). — L. Mangin, ‘ Recherches sur 
les Composés pectiques’ (contd.).— J. Vesque, ‘La tribu des 
Clusiées’ (contd.). — J. Miiller, ‘Lichenes neo-caledonici a cl. 
B. Balansa in Nova Caledonia lecti.’ 

Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot. xxix., No. 203: Jan. 25). —F. N. 
Williams, ‘ Monograph of Dianthus.’ 

Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Feb.), — J. Liitkemiiller, ‘ Beobach- 
tungen iiber die Chlorophyllkérper einiger Desmidiaceen’ (2 plates: 
conel.). — P. Ascherson, ‘ Sparganium neglectum’ (conel.). — P. 
Magnus, ‘ Ueber das monstrése Auftreten von Blitten und Blatt- 
biischeln au Cucurbitaceenfriichten’ (1 plate). — V. Schiffner, 

iiber die Terminol 


. Halacsy, 
kit, sp.n. — A. Hansgirg, ‘ Ueber Chatospharidium Prings- 
heimti & Aphanochate globosa.’ 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


« regret to see that Sir Joseph Hooker (Bot. Mag. t. 7277) 
employs (and justifies the use of) Stevensonia as the generic name of 
the palm which is properly styled Phoenicophorium. The matter 
was dealt with in this Journal for 1865, p. 353, where it was 
clearly shown that Stevensonia, a nomen nudum applied to this and 
a palm of another genus by James Duncan in his Catalogue of the 


been a German. a 
(1865, 354), then under Dr. Seemann’s management, the blame is 
‘ transferred to ‘an Irishman.” 

Mr. Jackson’s great Index continues to progress steadily, and 
with as much rapidity as the nature of the work will allow. It is 


a. - BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


now printed off as far as the beginning of E; up to the end of D 
it ae 807 quarto pages of three columns eac 

H rt of the Felsted School Natural History Society for 1891 
and 1808 conitanas a long list of * British plan s”—the term is 


a seful a 
kno wledge of our ore and alas be sanpciated “ane sors school 
‘ete ao neriBe ciety. 

tT Exxior has published the second part of his Flora of 

fren ath the first instalment of which we noticed in this 
Journal for 1891 (p. 883). The present issue brings the work down 
to the end of Rhamnacee. The help of some additional contributors, 
cated by curious abbreviations, is acknowl ledged. We are not 

a ber age the plant or the finder is referred to as a ‘“railwa 


passenger” (p. 8—for the paging begins de novo in this part !) ; 
ut we are sure that the occurrence of Viola cornuta at Dumfries 
station is unworthy of record. V. lactea seems a very unlikely 


se for ie distrig , 


hat writes his name thus, not ‘Me a as in the Bulletin) 
and Bolus in the 1890 distribution of their ‘Herbarium Austro- 
yee ara Such distribution constitutes a puliostion according 
to Art. 42 of the DeCandollean Laws, and the species in question 


ponies these is the rare first edition of the Liber Serapionis ( 1473), 
&@ copy of Which was secured some time since for the National 
Herbarium by Mr. Carruthers, who Pap es it from a bookstall 
at the cost of a few shillings. The Bulletin, by the way, states 
that this edition is omitted by Pritzel, bal this is not the case, 
though he gives 1475 instead of 1478 as the date of publication. 


THE sranictt Zeitung, which has completed its fiftieth year, 
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NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG, 
By Wuuu1am West, F.L.S. 
(Pate 338), 


Durine a short botanical tour about some of the mountains of 
Scotland, in July, 1889, I made a large number of gatherings of 
Alge ; I had also collected some in August, 1880; Mr. J. McAndrew, 
of New Galloway, collected certain plants at my request, the washings 
from which were rich; and Mr. E. Naylor, of Bradford, made a 
gathering in the Orkneys. An examination of these collections has 
resulted in a fair list of species, many of them not having been 
recorded before as British. 

During the preparation of this list, I ascertained that Mr. J. 
Roy, of Aberdeen, was preparing a list of the Desmids of Scotland; 
I therefore handed over to him a list of those I had noted, about 
200 in number, several of which were new species ; most of the 

d before by 


r. Roy. 
Washings and squeezings of Myriophyllum, Hypnum trifarium, 


rginata, and similar 


work. 
As the following names of localities are of frequent occurrence, 
they are contracted as follows :-- 


B. = Ben Lawers. M. = Meal Odhar. 


CG. = Craig-an-Lochan. N. = New Galloway 

G. = Carn-na-Glasha. S. = Glen Shee. 

Gm. = Glas Maol. T, = Glen Tilt. 
I.—ALGz. 


Class Confervoidee Heterogamee. 
Ord. CEpoGcontacE®. 

- CBdogonium Itzigsohnit De Bary, var. MINOR, Nov. var. Var cum 
cellulis angustioribus et oosporis minoribus. Crass. cell. veget. 
6-6'5 p; altit. 8-11 plo major; crass. oogon. 80 »; altit., 28-30 p; 
crass oospor. 18-20 p; altit. 18-20 p. Orkney Is. 

Gi. platygynum Wittr. 8. 

7, sp. Aberdeen. Crass. cell. veget. 10-12°5 p; altit. 6-7 plo 

major; crass. oogon. 24 p; altit. 40 »; crass. oospor. 20 p; 
altit. 30 p. 

Journat or Botany.--Vou. 81. [Aprit, 1893.] H 


98 NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG, 


Class Confervoidee Isogame. 
Ord. ConFERVACES. 

Conferva pachyderma ae N., Orkney Is. 

C. bombycina Ag., f. ee Wille. B., Ben Nevis, Ben MeDhui, 
Aberdeen.—f. minor Wille. 3 OU... OE, "Ben Nevis, Orkney Is. 

C. floccosa (Vauch.) Ag. oii Is. 

C. Raciborskit Gutw. (La Nuova Notarisia, 5 Aprilo, 1892, p. 17). 
B., N. Perhaps this spevice may be but a large form of C. Léfgrenit 
Nordst. (Aly. Easic. No. 421, p. 17), but the specimens examined 
are 2 Rear the plant described by Gutwinski. Lat, 24-25 »; crass. 

Fi 


pe 
Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kitz. §., Glen Lochaidh. 
Draparnaldia glomerata (Vauch. Ag. B. 
D. plumosa (Vauch.) Ag. Glen Lochaidh. 
Ord, UnorricHacE®. 
Hormiscia zonata (Web. et Mohr. ei Aresch, T. 
H. moniliformis (Kitz.) Rabh. 
Ulothrix tenerrima Kitz. M 
Class Conjugate. 
Ord. MrsocarPez, 
Mougeotia nummuloides (Hass.). B. Crass. cell. veget. 13°5- 
15 fi diam. spor. 28-87 p 
*M, gelatinosa Wittr. in Witte. et Nord. Alg. Easic. No. 957, p. 26. 
Crass. cell. veget. 15-16°5 »; long spor, 42-47 p ; lat. spor. 833-36 p. 
Glen Lochaidh. 


M. recwrva (Hass.), var Scortca, nov. var. Fig. 1. Var. paullo 
major, canalibus copulationis multe inflatis. he cell. veget. 
7°5-21 »; diam. spor. 25-28 p. en Tummel. The conjugating 


canal is distinctly visible all round the spore, as in M, Minnesotensis 
Wolle and M, divaricata Wolle. 


Ord. ZyaneMacEx. 
Spirogyra varians (Hass.) Kiitz. G. Crass. cell. veget. 30 p; 
long zygosp. 50-56 at ; lat. zygosp. 84-86 1 
Zygnema sp. (ster Killin. Cra all. veget. 20-24 w; long 
14--4-plo major. Several attempts at intake conjugation were seen, 
but no ri Zygos 
Z. sp. (ster.). C. ‘eae. cell. veget. 25-26 »; long 14-plo major. 
Z. sp. (ster.). C., B. Crass. cell. veget. 33-37 »; long 1-14- 
plo major. 
Class Cenobiea. 
Ord. PANDORINES. 
Pandorina morum Mill. C. 


Ord. PEprastRE&. 
Pediastrum angulosum (Ehrnb.) Menegh. 
P. Bo pty Turp.) cre Bi; S., Abaiatien. Bet granu- 
titael’ (Kiitz.) A. Braun. 
P. bidentulum A, Braun, Aberdeen. 


NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALGH, 99 - 


P. duplex Meyen. (P. pertusum Kiitz.). C., 8. 
P. tetras (Ehrnb.) Ralfs. §8. 
. tricornutum heer (Chloroph fran Norska Finmarken. p. 4, f. 3). 
Diam. coenob. 8 87-40 p; diam. cell. 18-15 ». Glen Tummel (1880). 
Fig. 2. 


P, integrum Nag. Fig. 4. 

*P, Sturmit Reinsch ‘(Die Algenflora mitt. Theil. von sprecctth 

. 90, taf. 7, f. 1). Forma aculeis brevioribus. Diam. ccenob. 
a acul.) 52 uw; diam. cell. 10». Fig. 3. Ben Laoigh. 


Ord. SorastREz. 

Sorastrum spinulosum Nig 

overs ome “(Nig.) A.Br. §. Long. cell. 5-7°5 p; 
lat. cell. 3-5-6 

Celastrum phan Nag. Aberdee 

. cambricum Arch. Aberdeen. ey coenob, 42-50 »; diam. 

cell. 19 p. Fig. 14. 

C. microporum Nag 


8. 
C. cubicum Nig. Abes daca 


II.—Proropayta. 
Class Protococcoidea. 
Ophiocytium cochleare (Kichw. ) yA. eas N., Aberdeen. 
Hor nospora mutabilis Bréb. 
Dictyospharium Ehrenber aki “Nig. ©. — Var. at NUTUM, nov. 
“var. fe 16 &17. Var. cellulis minutis globosis. Diam. cell. 
3-3°4 


Nephroe ytinum Agardhianum Nig. §8., M. 
N. Néigeliti Grun. M., Glen Lochaidh. 
Oocystis solitaria Wittr. B., G., M., Orkney Is., Aberdeen. 
Long. 15-20 »; 27° 5-825 pb; lat. 9° 5-11 p; 13°5-17°5 p. = Fig. 12. 
O. Négelit A. Br. §., Ben Chiurn. Long. 28-30 p»; y at. 17 p. 
This is somewhat smaller than the published dimensions of this 
species, and may be O. geminata Niig., which only appears to — 
m former in always being in pairs, and in its smaller size. 
In the specimens observed the cells were in pairs; we do no bie ow 
of any published cama of O. g  / aygng Nag. 
O. apiculata, no 8. O. in familias e 2-4 
cellulis formatas pee ee BPiotivis; diametro duplo longius, 
subapiculatis et incrassatis ad unumquemque polum. Long. cell. 
11-15 p; lat. cell. 5-6 »; diam. fam. 2-cell. 22-24 ». Orkney Is, 
er 


Alg. fra Nov. Sem. p. 26, t. 12, f. 3 et 4); it differs in being rather 
more than twice as long as broad, and in its more oblong shape, 
with thickened pointed ends. 
Ord. ProrococcacEx. 
Pleurococeus vulgaris Menegh. Ben Lawers, &c., common 
hiscia paucispinosa, nov.sp. Fig. 5. T. parva, cellulis 
solitariis vel in familiis ee associatis, subglobosis vel leve sub- 
H 2 


100 NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG. 


angularibus; membrana cellularum crassa, apni brevibus eres 
(periphericis 7-14) ornata. Diam. sine acul. 15-17 »; diam. 
acul. 18-20 »; crass. membr. 
ti is (Reinsch) Hansg., j occa. ‘Orkney Is. Diam. cum 
proc. 28 pu. 
Chlorococcum gigas Grun. Frequent. 
C. frustulosum Bs : Rabh. B. 
C. humicola (Nag C. 
Gleocystis ampla kite, ) Rabh. , C., §.. Orkney Is. 
G Nag. area cos Tummel. 
G. rupestris (Lyngb.) Rabh. a Orkn: 
este ante gelatinosa A. 'B. 
ella mucosa Kiitz. C. 
Pp hyalina Bréb. 
Eremosphera viridis De Bary. B., C., N., Glen Lochaidh. 
Botryococcus Braunii Kitz. 
Urococeus insignis (Hass.) Kiitz. N., Aberdeen, Orkney Is. 
Palmodactylon sp. §S. e plant ‘observed might have been 
referred to P. subramosum Nag., but the cells gia Breit sSkelibbae 
to elliptical. Long. cell. 5-6 y; lat. cell. 4-5 
Rhaphidium polymorphum Fres., var. Riculare (A. Br.) Rabh. 8. 
—Var. falcatum (Corda) Rabh. B., 8. 

*Geminella interrupta (Turp.) Lagerh. ( Bidrag till Sveriges = 
Flor. S 1, figs. ave)... Long. cell. 11-15-75 yw; lat. cell. 6-8-75 
Fig. 1 len Tum 
ss kdesines bata (anp. ) Kitz. C. 
S. alternans Rein 


8. Gatieulatis tape: var. linearis Hansg. (var. lineatus West). 
8., Ben Chiurn. 
*§. aculeolatus Rei nsch., forma brevior. Fig. 18. Forma cum 
cellulis abla ag ome forma typica. Long. a (c. spin.) 10 p; 
long. cell. (s. spin.) 8 »; lat. cell. 5 a 
Gi oamis (Turp .) Bréb. Sta Edinburgh Botanical 


8. acutus Me eyen. Frequent.—Var. obliquus Gate )Rabh. B.,C. 
Tetraédon minimum (A. Br.) Hansg. Aber 
T. enorme (Ralfs) Hansg. B. 


Class Phycochromacee. 
Sub-class Nostochinee. 
Ord. Nostocacem. 

Nostoe Linckia (Roth) Bornet. A form with pace aae and 
heterocysts rather stouter than in the type. Diam. cell. 3°5-4°5 
diam. heterocyst. 6°5-7°5 ‘ B. 

N. spharicum Vauch. LSP 

N. microscopicum Carm. “a Seg Benn.). B. 

Ana sp. The material was insufficient for determi- 
nation. The filaments were straight, with cells oblong, and one 
and a half times longer than broad; spores cylindrical, mee (or 
very slightly-curved), with rounded ends. Crass, cell. 5 »; long. 
spor, 40-46 »; lat, spor, 12-14 p. 


ae et 


NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG. i0i 
A. sp. Ben Laoigh. Crass. cell. 5°5-7 4; crass. heterocyst. 
Op 
~ tere 


Hike Ann. des Scien. Natur. Te sér. tom. 8, p. 874). —. 
: ig. ll. 5., 4., 
McDhui. On dripping alpine ro fick®! This species seems to be wall 
marked by the total absence of heterocys 
Gleotrichia Pisum (Ag.) Thuret. Orknéy Is. Crass. fil. 9-10 p; 
crass. trich. 6 p. 
Ord. ScyronEMACEZ, 


. . distorta Kiitz. Ben Chiurn. Crass. fil. 11°5-13 p; 
crass. trich. 5-7°5 p; crass. heterocyst. 6:5 p 
*Seytonema tolypotrichoides Kiitz. B. Crisk fil. 15-16°5 p 


erass. trich. 10-11 p; crass. heterocyst. 10 p. Fig. 15. _The ot 
were mostly subquadrate, but some of the younger specimens had 
the cells up to four times as long as broad, the heterocyst being 
. variable, and the younger sheaths constantly hya 

5. fo Ag. Ben MeDhui. Crass. fil. 90-93. ys ee 
trich. 5-7°5 pw; b onakoaynt 15-18 x 10 p. This occurred m 
with Stigonema turfaceum Cooke 


Ord. eat ae 
Stigonema panniforme (Ag.) B ot Flah. Glen Tummel. 
S. turfaceum Cooke. Ben MeDhui, Orkney Is. 


Ord. OscrLARIACE2. 
Oscillaria Frélichii Kitz. B., Ben Laoigh. 
O. nigra Vauch. B., C., Ben ’ Chiurn. 
O. tenuis Ag., var. curses Kitz. B. 
0. apcion aay Kitz. Ag 
O. tenerrima Kitz. 
L aie iaieddte (Kits. _ C. 
Siib-class Chroococcacee. 
Ord. CHroococcacEz. 
Chroococcus minor (Kiitz.) Nag. 
C. pallidus (Nag.). Ben Chiurn 
C. turgidus (Kutz ee Very ‘fre reque 
C. coherens Nag. Corrie Gudidor. aibkaaean: 
— Glaocapsa polyder wai Kitz. B. 


Synechococcus eruginosus Nag. 

Merismopedia glauca (Ehrnb.) Nig. ies eae Tummel. 

M. irregulare Lagerh. 5. Diam. cell. 2-2: 

Aphanocapsa rivularis (Carm.) Rabh. B. Gn 

A. Grevillei (Berk.) Rabh. Forma cum cellulis vi nag 
a. in forma seine. Lat. famil. 88-42 »; lat. cell. 3». Ben 


Misco protogenita (Bias.) Rabh. O., Glen Tummel. 
Aphanothece microscopica Nag. Aberdeen. 


102 NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG, 


A. saxicola Nag. , C., Glen Tummel, Ben Laoigh. 
Jelospharium Hisingianun Nay. By 0. 
Gomphospheria aponina Kit 


Class Diatomacea. 

Cyelotella operculata (Ag ) Kitz. Glen Tummel, Orkne 

Melosira varians Ag. , G., Edinburgh Botanical Gasaens, 
Aberdee 

M. SE (Khrnb.) Pritch. C. 

Swirl linearis W. Sm. B., G. 

seriata (Khrnb.) Bréb. ig ee hk 

8. pocabeisy (Ehrnb.) Kitz. Ben Chiur 

Cymatopleura elliptica (Bréb.) W. Sm. Maki: 

C. Solea (Bréb.) W. Sm. 

i daieaee 3 turgida (Ehrnb.) Kits. B., 8., M., Corrie Ceandor, 
Ben Laoigh. 
E. Westermann ee ) Kitz. §., C., Ben Chiurn. 
i. Hyndman 
I). gibba (Ehrab. ) “Kits. Frequent. 
. ventricosa 

E. Zebra (Ehrnb. ) Kiitz. D.; a 

E. eae me a ) Kitz., var. rupestris (W.8m.) Rabh. N., 
Gm., Ben 

E, psi Ela.) Ruw. Bb. 2, Uz 

E. alpesivis W. Sm. B., C.,§., G., T. 


E nb. 

FE, Tetraodon Ehrnb. B., Gm., M., Ben Laoigh. 
E, Pentodon Ehrnb. C. 

EF, Diadema Khrnb. C. 

E. Arcus Ehrnb.  B., C., 

E 


Gm., G. 
7. majus W. Sm. Frequent. —Var. b ens W. Sm. N. 
E. gn racilis Khrnb. C., M., N., one aed Glen Lochaidh, 
Orkney Is 


E. a Ehrnb. 

E. pectinalis Dillw. B., T., Corrie Ceandor. — Var. undulatum 
Ralis. .B., 5., 2, Corrie Geandor 

E. Soleirolei Kite, Corrie Ceandor. 

Ceratoneis Arcus (Khrnb.) Kitz. * Roeds Ceandor, Glen Lochaidh, 
Ben Chiurn. 

C. Amphioxys pea S., T., M., Corrie Ceandor. 

a C. 


; 
ae lanceolatum Ehm b. Common. 
C. eymbiforme el, Ehrnb. Common. 

C. Cistula Hempr. §., B., M., T., Corrie Ceandor. 
. parvum W, Sch. Si Ws; G., Corrie Ceandor 

neyonema caspitosum Kiitz, Glen Tummel. 
. Imphora ovalis Ki 

‘occoneis Placentula Bhrub. C., S., Corrie Ceandor. 


NOTES ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALG. 108 


C. Thwaitesii W. Sm. Very frequent. An auxospore was seen 
seis Craig-an-Lochan (fig. 6). Long. auxosp. 34 »; lat. auxosp. 


Jenlai microcephalum Kitz. C. 

4. lanceolatum Bréb. §., Glen Tummel, Ben Chiurn. 

A, lineare W. Sm. 

Achnanthes exilis Kita. ea 

Denticula sinuata W. 8 oo. aie it 

Odontidium hyemale aE yaph. ) i tz. B., Glen Lochaidh, Corrie 
Ceandor. 

O. mesodon Kiitz. B., , bey oy 

O. mutabile W. Sm. s. C., G., M., Aberdeen, Edinburgh 

ns. 


Fra gilaria capucina Desmaz. B., M., G., Corrie Ceandor. 

F. virescens Ralfs. 

F’, construens (Ehrnb.) Grun. B., Ben Chiurn. —- Var. binodis 
abh. C. 


Diatoma vulgare ets S., G., Corrie Ceandor 

D. elongatum Ag. B., S., Corrie Ceandor, Edinburgh Botanical 
Gardens 

Synedra lunaris Ehrnb. ob hcioseg —Var. undulata Rabh. N. 


S. biceps Kitz. N., Aberdee 

S. pulchella Kitz. 

S. minutissima (Kitz. 2 W. Sm. , C., M., Glen Tum 

S. Ulna Ehrnb. B., 8., M., T., aM Lochaidh, Corrie aoe. 
S. splendens Kiitz. 


Vv equent. 

S. capitata Ehrnb. Edinburgh Botanical Gardens. 
S. Acus 
Asterionella formosa a Hass. C 
Amphipleura pellucida Kitz. 

Nitzschia Amphiowys (Ehrnb.) W. Sm. B., Ben Chi 
N. sigmoidea — ) W. Sm. B., Glen ‘Tummel, ‘Hatnbargh 

Botanical Garde 

N. a (Ag. ) Ww. ae B. 
N. tenuis W. Sm. §., N., Glen a Orkney Is. 
Navtowle rhomboides nt reque 
N. serians (Bréb.) Kiitz. C., 
uae shies Kiitz. Frequent. —Var. cocconeoides Rabh. Corrie 


“Sie 
N. limosa (Kate, ) jrun., var. bicuneata Grun. C. 
N. hebes Ralfs [N. obtusa W. Sm 
N. Amphisbena Bory. Corrie Ceandor, Glen Tummel. 
_ anglica Ralfs. C 


N. Semen Ehrnb.  T. 
N. . rhynchocephala Kitz. Orkney Is. 
N. affinis Ehrnb. , Corrie Ceandor. 


N. Amphirh yncus Ehrnb. B., Ben Laoigh. 
N. producta 8. 

N, exilis (Kiitz. ) Grun. B., C. 

N. angustata W. Sm. OC, 


104 Notis ON SCOTCH FRESH-WATER ALGAE. 


N. eryptocephala Kitz. §., Orkney Is. 

N. dicephala Ehrnb. C., Ork ney Is. 

Pinnularia nobilis ae B., N., Aberdeen, Glen Lochaidh. 
P. major Rab i. 

P, Rabenhorstii Ralfs. , 

P. Tabellaria Ehrnb., var. acrospheria Rabh. C., Aberdeen. 
P. gibba Ehrnb. C., N., M., Ben a Abatinen 


P. alpina W. Sm. C., M., Gm oa Ceandor. 
. radiosa (Kiitz.) Rabh. C., Orkney Is., Aberdeen. 

P. borealis Khrnb. Ben Chiurn, Long 56 p; lat. 12 »; striis 
in 25 


= 
P. acuta W. Sm. 8. 
P. mesolepta W. Sm. B. 
P. divergens W. Sm. C., G., Gm., Corrie Ceandor, Ben Laoigh, 
sania Ag oo Botanical Gardens 
P. Brebissonii (Kiitz.) Rabb. Orkney Is. 
fr rustulia saxonica Rabh., forma aquatica Rabh. Frequent. 
Stauroneis Phenicenteron '(Nitzsch) Ehrnb. Frequent. 
S. anceps Ehrnb. 
Gomphonema tenellum ise bipre 8 
G. dichotomum Kitz. C.,G@ i, Gm., Glen Lochaidh. 
G. Vibrio Ehrnb.  §., C. 
G. capitatum Ehrnb. §&., C. 
G. constrictum Ehrub. S., M. 
G. geminatum Ag. 5., M., Glen Lochaidh. 
} equent 


G. olivaceum (Lyngb.) Kitz, id. 

G. intricatum Kitz. G., Gm., T., ep Lochaidh. 
Meridion circulare (Grev. ) Ag. G., ¥ 

M. constrictum Ralfs. TT. 

Tabellaria flocculosa (Roth) Kitz. SOunag: 

1’. fenestrata (Lyngb.) Kitz. Freque 

Tetracyclus emarginatus (Khrnb.) W. ‘Sm M. 


XPLANATION OF PiatE 333.—Fig. 1. Mougeotia igs te Boe ) var Scotica, 

nov. var. x 400. 2. Pediastrum tricornutum Borge. . P. Sturmii 

i rec heetns paucispinosa, 
x 520. 7&8. 


ictyospherium 
Ehrenbergianum Niig., var. minutum, noy. var. x 520. 17. Ditto, x 520. 


105 


NOTES ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF CAMPYLOPUS. 
By H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S. 


C. pyriformis Brid., var. Miillert (C. Miileri Jur.).—I find this 
form at Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, with the calyptra quite 
entire at the base, or, in a very few cases, very slightly lobed indeed. 
Leaves very deciduous ; in the type are rarely so, I think, to 
any great extent in the fertile plants, though the condition is a 
very prevalent one when barren. 

C. fragilis B. & 8.—In fruit, Poison Glen, Donegal, 1890.—A 

d at Ecclesbourne, near 


stem tomentose above in CU. Schimpert, with copious radicles even 
tus the s 


la 
large hyaline cells, C. Schimpert having only a single row of these 
cells; (5) the presence or absence of basal auricular cells; (6) the 


impert. 

value of the character derived from the tomentose con- 
dition of the stem, as well as that of the relative size of the plants, 
ig minimised by the fact that in the var. elongatus Bosw. of C. subu- 
latus, which attains to one or two inches in height, the stems 
(though not the branches) are described as “ copiously radiculose 
below.” Specimens of C. Schimpert, moreover, gathered in 1890 
in the north of Ireland (for the correct naming of which I have the 
authority of Mr. H. Boswell and others), have the stems entirely 


d t 
C. Schimperi is constantly the broader, is far less than is often seen 
in leaves, even in those taken from the same plant, of C. fragilis or 


f C. fleauosus. 

(4). I do not think much weight can be attributed to this char- 
acter. Specimens of VU. Schimperi. from Rabenhorst’s exsiccata 
show the anterior row of hyaline cells to be here and there 
doubled; while in authentic specimens of C. subulatus from Fern, 
near Brechin, I find this stratum to be distinctly composed of a 
single row, with two rows of small opaque cells at the back, and the 
same is the case with plants of the same species gathered in 
Belgium by Gravet. 


106 NOTES ON THE PRITISH SPECIES OF CAMPYLOPUS. 


(5). There is a Femareeble diversity of opinion among authors 
as to the presence or absence of auricular cells in these species. 
With regard to C. bagel Sehiampe says, — —— 
nullis’’; Braithwaite writes, ‘‘ Leaves not au eae - kirk 
(Synops. of Brit. Mosses), ‘* Leaves et auricled ix bas Roawell, 
in describing the var. elongatus, speaks of the * iii of dia. 
phanous vesicular cells (of C. Schimperi) near the base of the leaves 
on either side, absent in brevifolius.” Husnot (Muse. Gall.) has 
*‘ pas d’oreillettes —— * On the other ste Boulay (Musct- 
nées de la France) writes, ‘‘cellules basilaires un peu gonflées, le 
plus souvent incolorées, een t lieu 4 des oreillettes séuibiablos a 

celles du C. brevipilus les moins caractérisées.’ is latter condition 

is exactly what I find in specimens gathered by the wih J 

Fergusson at Fern, while in Gravet’s specimens and in plants of 

this species gathered in 1889 in the New Forest, I find the sation 
ite as mu 


specimens of C. Schimperi that I have seen. mr in original 
specimens of C. brevifolius var. elongatus, kindly sen Mr. 
Boswell himself, I find in the upper leaves especially ches distinct 
tufts of vesicular basal cells, sometimes wider than the leaf-base 


respect, as is found in C. brevipilus, where the auricular cells 
sometimes barely eae agree at chess very highly develo sell 

(6). The straight seta certainly seems a point of more import- 
ance, but I am not aware that the fruit of C. <a here os that has 
been found shows the young seta to be cygneous; if not, no con- 
clusions can be drawn from it as to the relative standing of the 
p ants in question. I am inclined to think, therefore, that Husnot 
is justified in reducing C. Schimperi to a variety. 

The following are, I ist new records for the two 
C. rari near Lyndhurst, New Forest, 1889. C. Duane, 
Dalwhinnie, Inverness, 1883 ; Giant's s Causeway, Co. Antrim, 
1890. (Recorded doubtfully in Jowrn. Bot., Dec. 1891, and since 
confirmed. ) 

C. flecuosus Brid.—Few writers call attention to the variable 
nature of this species, which is the most common and the most in- 
constant of the oes Besides the vars. paradoxus and paludosus, 
there is to be found vith every conceivable variety of habit, 


pei more robust and more tomentose than, but in other respects 
much like the var. paludosus ; one with the leaves regularly faleate, 
and the aspect ~ a Dicranum; another cannes identical in habit, 


lutus, to nero ith ode flexuose points, rarely becoming “setose 
and hyaline, as in (. setifolius; they are sometimes entire, or very 


RAY’S HERBARIUM. 107 


nearly so, often serrated sharply for the whole leugth of the 
subula; sometimes flattened for a great part of the length of the 
leaf, at others becoming incurved and tubular from the base; the 
nerve varying from one-fifth to two-thirds the width of the leaf at 
base, often from a quarter to more than a alf in the same plant ; 
the auricles frequently most distinct, beautifully coloured, large, an 
wider than the rest of the leaf, but occasionally hardly a de- 
veloped ; while similar variations occur in the areolation of the 
rest of the leaf-base. 
m 


3 


po 

sometimes hyaline; when dry, flexuose. The lid of the fruit, in 
the only specimen where it is retained, is short and conical, hardly 
rostellate, and not more than one-third the length of the capsule. 

The var. paludosus seems to be of fairly general occurrence ; I 
have found it, for instance, on Cynicht, N. Wales; near Lynd- 
hurst in the New Forest ; and on Gurnard’s Head, W. Cornwall. 

ar. paradowus. —— Helvellyn, 1891. Tyn-y-groes, Dolgelly, 
1890. Walberswick, Suffolk, 1885. 

C. atrovirens var. epilosus Braithw.—-Penmaenmawr, 1892. 

C. atrovirens var. falcatus Braithw.—Doocharry Bridge, Donegal, 
Growing in the same tuft with a fairly typical form, and with other 
stems showing various intermediate stages of the faleate condition. 

C. brevipilus B. & S.—Also a very variable species. One form 

in the New Forest, from its general habit and the 
unusually long hair-points, simulated C. introflecus. Another very 
pretty plant, of a dark bronze-green, with the hair-points almost 
obsolete, the auricles distinct (perhaps var. auriculatus Ferg.), and 
the leaves tubular from the base upwards, grew in almost the same 


spot. 
: This species appears to be rare in Wales, but I found it in 1888, 
near Llyn Idwal, Carnarvonshire. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
J.—Ray’s Herparium. 


Tux translation by Mr. Joseph Lucas of Kalm’s Account of his 
Visit to England on his way to America in 1748 (selected from his 
En Resa til Norra Amerika) contains a passage which throws an 
interesting light upon the present condition of the Rayan Her- 
barium now preserved in the Botanical Department of the British 


useum. 

This Herbarium, as stated in this Journal for 1863, p. 32, was 
transferred from the Apothecaries’ Company’s Garden at Chelsea 
to the British Museum in 1862. It may be worth while, as many 
present readers of the Journal do not possess the earlier volumes, 


108 RAY’S HERBARIUM. 


which have long been out of print, to transcribe the account which 
was then given :-— 


“The herbarium of J sae cape is still in existence. It was ripe ee 
by him to his friend Samuel Dale, a apothecary, at Braintree, who w 
about forty-five years old at ie time of Ray’s death (1705), and bere 
him till the year 1739, when he left his books and plants as a legacy to 
om 


oO e 
the assistant, and in the end the successor to "Pet iver, as 
_ botanical byte bb to the Company, was officially connected wih the 
ardens fo re than twenty years before Dale’s he rbarium was deposited 

He was hen making an extensive hortus siccus, which at his 


Aocuenvins | em is a manuscript index, so in in Ray’s ing; 
it is entitled ‘ Horti Sicci Raiani Catalogus,’ and contain ns an der wo the 
fascicles as far as letter S, arranged alphabetiontty, 4 this manner 

* Cyclamen autumnale baer Folio, K. 5, 0.8, 8.6.’ “The importance 
of this collection in determining precisely what are Ray’s species cannot 
be over-estimated ; and with those of Dale and Rand, both of whom 
helped Dillenius in his edition of Ray’s ‘ Syn nopsis,’ added to the collections 
of Sloane, Petiver, Sherard, Buddle, Richards son, and others, already in 


a 
ritish Association, conmating of Dr. Gray, Prof. Babington, and the Rey. 
; uld, to no eh a oa report on ‘The nts of Ray’s 

Synopsis Stirpiwm’ as et ned by an examination of the original 
seers of Ray and other 

e Journal for 1670; pp. 82-4, Dr. Trimen gives a further 
ssscund of Ray’s Herbarium, in the course of which he corrects one 

or two details, ana supplies additional information. He says 


a ait 


“Tt consists of 20 books ya different aver each cote about 
30 sheets of thin rough.paper, on which the specimens are sewn. Th 


er 

nays Rete The collection has been badly used; many Mot the 

specimens have been cut out. Proba ly, some of the labels, too, are in 

Dale’s writing, which it is difficult alw ays to distinguish from Ray’s. 

— is no eens ae - me collection, the plants having probably 
co ; 


of the species are European. Switzerland, Italy and Acree 
are ‘bene fepeabeatid : there are a few from Belgi Holland and 


man 
gardens. Localities are vo generally given, but many specimens from 
the Jura and Sicily are very definit tely localized. There can Ke little 


RAY’S HERBARIUM. 109 


1663—1665, s left us ing account in his 

‘ Journey,’ 1 outa in 1678, ev which book lists of the plants found are 

given, which agree w ss ie those in the ‘ Hortus Siccus.’ These = 
afterwards exten imp in the Stirpiwm Extra Bri 


have localities 
These oats De ian i esa to quote, but I do not think 
it necessary to repeat them 
ith a view to the better ae of this interesting relic, 
the jouvée have been mounted upon sheets of stiff paper of a 
uniform size, and placed in solander cases, and are now easily 
siSsasibls to students. The book lettered ‘‘T” is composed of 
Jamaica plants aan? we no by Sloane, and has names in th 


Botanic Gardens of both Paris and Pela at least it is believed to 
— them in North American plants. It is laid out at Chelsea, 
a short English mile from London, because a great many — 
= thrive in London for the coal-smoke.” He proceeds: 

in the Orangery there is preserved as a great rarity, 
the caliscton of plants which the great Historicus patios as , Joh. Rajus 
or Ray himself collected and arranged, and with his o n hand wrote the 

names under. Mr. Ray presented this collection a ak? before his death, 

which took place the 17th January 1706, to his good friend and neighbour, 
Mr. Samuel Dale, ew of the we own Pharmacologia. Mr. Dale 
afterwards in - old a ve them as well as his own collection of 
re Th 


s the plants had jax | 


when he had found any plant, which was either rare, or he thought muc 
of, it was said that he had ether clipped or cut it out, so that the books \ 
been ey mu 
Mr. Druce informs me gee these plants cannot be traced in the 
bres seein at Oxford. 
uch to be regretted that the Report on “the Plants of 
Rey’ 8 St htipels" ’ never saw the light ; there are few British botanists 
who could bring to such a task the knowledge and other anaes 
tions which Mr. Newbould possessed in so eminent a degree 
JAMES Haan. 


110 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALG OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
By Erne §. Barron. 
(Continued from p. 84.) 
NARIA LopaTa Ag. Knysna, Boodle! Algoa Bay, Ecklon, 


Zon 
Areschoug, Holub ! *Port Nat al, Kraus. 
Geogr. Distr, Atlantic (Brazil, West pdien, Canaries), 


Species inquirenda. 

Z. marcivata Suhr. (? Dictyota). Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Cape, 
fide Agardh. Agardh considers this a doubtful species of Zonaria. 
I have not been fortunate enough to see any specimen of the plant. 

Papina pavonia Gaill. Port Natal, yo oe 

Geogr. Distr eneral in tempera d oce 

Hatiseris ticunata Suhr. Table Soe fide roa es Algoa Bay, 
Ecklon. From Algoa Bay to shores of Natal, fide Areschoug. 

H. serrata Aresch. Port Natal, Hb. Areschoug ! 

H. picuoroma Suhr. ais Drege. Port Natal, Hb. Ares- 
choug! Gueinzius! Cape, D 

H. macrocarpa Aresch. Port Natal, Hb. Areschoug! Gueinzius ! 
“ H. ponypopiowes Ag. Algoa Bay and Port Natal, Ecklon. 

TaUSS. 

ine Distr. Atlantic, West Indies, North Sea, Mediterranean, 
Tasmani 

H, penicatuta Lam. Port Natal, — Areschoug, 

Geogr. Distr. Brazil and West Indi 


Ecrocarpaces. 

Ecrocarpus = ie Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 864. 

Geogr. Distr. Adria 

E. conrervorwes Le “a Kalk Stef ot 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Mediterra 

E, stmprictuscunus Ag. Kalk Bay, ae ! 

Geogr. Distr. Adriatic. St. Vincent, C. V. Britain. 

K. smacutosus Lyngb. Cape, Harvey! Tyson! South Africa, Dr ege! 
- ite, Sole Distr. Atlantic (from Faroe to Cape Horn), Australia, 


BE. eranutosus Ag. Cape 

Geogr. Distr. North or South ‘Ailantic. New Zealand. 
SPHACELARIACER, 

SPHACELARIA TRIBULOIDES miler Port caer Krauss. 


* This specimen is too ines entary to identity, but from the sidiiod of the 
sporangia, I doubt the correctness of the 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 111 


Geogr. Distr. cn and Indian Oceans. Mediterranean, 
West Indies and Aust 

S. FURCIGERA Ki On Suhria vittata and Ecklonia buccinalis, 
fide Grunow. 

Geogr. Distr. Indian and other oceans. 

SrypocavuLon PanicuLatum Kiitz. Port Natal, Krauss. (Reinke 
doubts the oe me —, specimens. 

teogr. D Australia. New Zealand. 

S. scopaRiuM = 6 "ral Bay, Drege, Boodle! Cape Point, 
Boodle! Robben Island, Wenek! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. No. 154. 
Port Natal, Krauss! Cape, Harvey! Scott Elliot! Reinke queries 
the Cape as a locality, but I think the specimens I th examined 
leave no doubt as to the occurrence there of this spec 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic from Iceland to Spain. Matinee 


§. runicuLarE Kiitz. Table Bay, False Bay ( ye Areschoug). 

Geogr. Distr. South Pacific and South Atlan 

oe are ee Geyler = POT Sunen J. Ag. 
Port Natal, Krauss. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 503. Algoa 
Bay, Ecklon. Port ‘Natal, Ecklon. 

CHoRDARIACE 

Leatuesia pirrormis Aresch. Cape Po int, Boodle! Pr Har- 
vey ! ee Scott Elliot ! Sea Point, Havin! Boodle 

Geogr. Distr. Atlan 

aati? capensis J. Ag. Cape, Harvey. 

Mesocrora virescens Carm. Cape Point, Boodle! Cape, Harvey! 

Geogr. Distr. Shores of Northern Europe. 

C mange ae Kiitz. Cape, Tyson! Sea Point, Tyson! 
Cape, Reeve! H: ! Knysna, Hohenack. ! No. 61; Drege! Krauss ! 
Cape Point, Sea ‘Point, Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape, Pappe. 

: g. Camps Bay, Ecklon. Table Bay, Krauss. 
Knysna, Kr . Trin. Coll. Dublin! Cape, Harvey! H 
Dickie! Brand! I believe, 3 the Krauss eae were scaihiliod 
stir he capensis Kutz. 
ee vised ae: x rth Atlantic. North and South Pacific. 
C. aio pole Table Bay, Harvey. South Africa, Krauss ! 


No. 197. 
e Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic and Pacific. Indian Ocean. 


PUNCTARIACEE. 

Des so sad LIGULATA Var. HERBACEA. Camps Bay. Amsterdam, 
Ecklon. Cape, Hb. Dickie! — 

Geogr. Distr. North Pac 

Var. rrzrma. Cape, Laland, Hon, Pappe. 

D. acuteata Lam. Cape, 

Geogr. Distr. North Peas, North Atlantic, and warm Atlantic. 
Black Sea. 


112 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


SPOROCHNACES. 
Asperococcus sinuosus Roth. Cape Point, Boodle! Knysna, 
Boodle! Port Natal, Krauss. 
Geogr. Distr. =e cae warm oceans. 
A. BuLLosus Lam. Cape, . Agardh. 
eogr. Distr. Adriatic, seatskatens Atlantic and Baltic, 
acific. 


A. compressus Griff. Cape, Harvey. 

Geogr. Distr. Britain, Mediterranean. 

A, cuarnratus Bory. Mosterts Bay,.jide Grunow 
Geoyr. Distr. Warm Atlantic. Red Sea. Australia. 


LAMINARIACEE 

LAMINARIA PALLIDA Grey. Table fi, Pappe! Table Bay, Drege! 
Cape, Scott Elliot ! 

L. Oe: Foslie, Walfisch Bay, Schinz. 

Ecxtonia Exasperata J. Ag. Table Bay, fide Areschoug. Cap 
Aguilas,’ "Hohenack. | No. 164; Steel! Algoa Bay, Ab. Dickie | 
Omsameulo, Drege 

Geogr. Distr. North Atlantic (Canaries), New Holland, and 
New Zealand. 

E. succinatuis Hornem. Table Bay, fide Areschoug. Camps 
Bay, Gordon’s Bay, Ecklon. False Bay, fide dreschoug. Cape, 
Harvey! Hb. Dickie! D’ Urville, Gaudichaud, sy enige 

Geogr. Distr. South Atlantic and South P acific, 

Prynaria rasticiata Endl. et Dies. Port Natal, Hb. Péppig. 
This genus is placed by Prof. Agardh next to Ecklonia. He has 
not seen the plant himself, but Judges it to be closely allied to F. 
buccinalis Hornem., if not identical with it. 

‘LEssONIA NIGRESCENS Bory. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! No. 162. 

Geogr. Distr. South Pacific. 

‘Macrooystis pyrirera Ag. Sea Point, Tyson! Boodle! Cape, 
Brand. Cape, fide Areschoug, gore Hohenack.! Scott Elliot ! 

eogr. Distr. Indian Oce 

M. pranicauuis Ag, Cape, Har vey, Pee Pfeiffer. 

Geogr. Distr. Indian O Can 

M. peuaaica Aresch. dane ‘Hb. ated Hb. Areschoug. 


RanFstacex 


et verrucosa Aresch. Sea Point, Kalk Bay, Knysna, 
Bood e! 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic from Iceland to France. Baltic and 
Ranieckeikic 
Fiorwex. 
PorpHyRacem 


Porpnyra vunearis Ag. Robben pen Boodle! Table Bay, 
Drege, Krauss, a Boa Point, Boodle! Tyson! Kalk Bay, Boodle! 
Geogr. Distr. Gen 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 118 


P. tacrnrata Ag. Seal Island, Challenger! Table Bay, fide 
Areschoug. Knysna, Krauss. Port Natal, side Areschoug. Cape 
Gaudichaud, R. Brown! 

Geogr. Distr. Temperate Atlantic. 

P. capensis Kiitz. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 492. wes 
Boodle! Cape, Harvey! 

eogr. Distr. Indian Ocean. Cape Horn 

P. Aveustins Kiitz. Robben Island, Boodle ! Cape, D’ Urville 
& Lesson 

Eine Harvevi Aresch. Cape, Harvey. 

B. rusco-purpurra Lyngb. Cape, Harvey! Tyson! 

Geogr. Distr. Northern seas. 


CERAMIER. 

GrirritHsia coratuina Ag. ‘Table Bay, Krauss. Sea Point, 
Tyson ! 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic (Europe). Mediterranean. W. Indies. 

G. secunpa Harv. Muysenberg, Harvey! 

G. cmsprrosa Harv. False Bay, fide Suhr. Cape, Harvey! 

Prmora Paprrana J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! Tyson! Kalk 
Bay, Pappe! Cape, Harvey! 

_ Hanorreema Arercanum Kiitz.’ South Africa, fide Kiitzing. 

Crramium Gracittimum Harv. Cape Point, Kalk Bay, Knysna, 
Boodle ! 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Mediterranean. Me Indies. Australia? 

C. strrotum Grev. Robben Island, Bood 

Geogr. Distr. North and South Aaa in. Mediterranean. 
Black Sea. oe Indies. 

C. cancettatum Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! Cape Point, Boodle! 
Cape Agus Hohenack.! No. 548. Cape, Gaudichaud, Harvey ! 

C. ANUM aes Table Bay, Zederberg! Pappe! Boodle! 
“Cape, Reklon, Har 

Geogr. Distr. pyres W. Indies. Australia? 

mu Ag. Cape Point, Boodle! Natal, Krauss. Cape, 
Brawkt ! Seott Elliot | 23 

Geogr. Distr. General. 

C. carense Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

G. opsotetum Ag. Robben Island, Tyson! Boodle! Seal Island, 
Challenger ? "Table Bay, Ecklon. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 
540. Knysna, Krauss. Cape, R. Trimen! The specimen in the 
- British Masoung from Seal Island, collected by the ‘ Challenger’ 
Expedition, and named C. capense Kiitz., is so fragmentary that it 
is difficult t to identify it. I believe it, however, to be C. obsoletum Ag. 

CG. crrorsnatum J. Ag. Cape Point, Boodle! 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic shores of Europe. Mediterranean. 

C. putcuentum Grunow. Table Bay, jide Kiitzing. Cape, 
Harvey! On C. cancellatum. 

Journat or Borany,—Vot. 31. [Aprin, 1893.] I 


114 MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


C. PorPPIGIANUM Grun. Port Natal, Jelinck. ‘‘On Amphiroa 
ephedracea,’ 

CrnTRocERas cLavuLatum Ag. Seal Island, Challenger ! Res 
Island, Boodle! Table Bay, Pappe! Sea Po int, Tyson! Cape 
Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, Boodle! E. Young! ps Elliot ! 
Muyse enberg, Harvey! Knysna, Boodle! Krauss. "Case. Hb. Hepp! 

! No. 538. 


Hohenack. | 
Geogr. Distr. In all warm seas. 
_ Carpo an awtng ris minima, n.sp. Frons ramosa, 4 poll. alt. 


ab. ad Prom ae Spel. In speciminibus Laminaria a W. 
Tyson com. 


C. ruaccipa Kiitz. Robben Island, Boodle! Tyson ! pale Bay, 
Harvey! Cape Point, Boodle ! Green Point, Hb. Ha tion Kalk 
ay, E. Young! Camps s Bay, Reynolds! Knysna, Kra Cape, 
Ecklon, Drege | Brandt Areschoug, ears extraeurop. oxo No. 20. 
Hb, Wenek! Hb. Dickie! Hohenack.! No. 544. 

Hatornamnion Harveyanum J. Ag. Cape, Harvey. 

H. riicinum Harv. Cape, Harvey. 

H. ? ramutosum J. Ag. bei Side J. Agardh, 

ARISTOTHAMNION PURPURIFERUM J. . = CALLITHAMNION PUR- 
PURIFERUM J. Ag. Cape Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, Boodle! Table 
Bay, Pappe! Cape, Harv 

Pxeonosporium Borre rig nh apt Harvey | 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. Mediterr 

CALLITHAMNION HUMILE Kiitz. teas fide 2 - Agardh. On Iridea, 

C. constrictum Her. Port Natal, Krauss 

C. verticustatum Suhr. Cape, Ecklon. 

C. cracize H.f. & Harv.? Simon’s Bay, Challenger | 

Geogr. Distr. Campbell Islands. 

C. srurposum Suhr. Cape, Ecklon. 

C. varmcatum Suhr. Algoa Bay, fide Suhr. 

C. pensum Suhr. Cape, fide J. Agardh. 

C. Serrutariowrs Suhr. Table Bay, fide Suhr. 

C. srriaruzum Suhr. Cape, fide Suhr. 


(To be continued.) 


115 


NOTES ON BRISTOL PLANTS. 
By James W. Waite, F.L.8., anp Davin Fry. 


_ Tis paper continues the enumeration of plants not included 
in the Flora of the Bristol Coalfield, or in the su 


nt 
n the district i the year 
varieties not yet recorded (so far as we are aware) for vice-counties 
6 or 34 are distinguished by an asterisk. 
her important correction has to be made. The peat-moor 
nega which there seemed to be excellent reason for aoe 
s R. Cariensis Rip. & Genev —* _ 1892, p. 11), is not that 
onan and the record must be cancelled. Several other names 
aia ‘sung sate ee for this ssinssholie plant, but none of them 
how an be poem assigned to it. More investigation is 
Becca: na otis its identity 
Trigonella pn toner ‘Lam. In West Gloucester. This is 
cited in Top. Bot., ed. 2, for the above vice-county on the authority 
of the late Dr. G. H. K. Thwaites. In his time it undoubtedly 
grew at Shirsatoaier on the a ye bank of the eek 
below Clifton, but has not been found there for many years 
though repeatedly and onrenie ached for ; seems its Pais 
covery in fair quantity, last summer, on Brandon Hill, is 
situated in that part of Bristol included in West Gloneester, mae. 
be _— placing on record. Several of the ~~ with w 
pu ascens is — on Brandon Hill, e , Lrifolium too 
ie at and 7. filiforme, are uncommon in the Bristol district. 
Lathyrus tuberosus L. Alien. On the. Avon bank near Sea 
Mills, West Gloucester. During the last two csi several persons 
have drawn attention to the presence of this plant in a spot where 
its introducti ion is difficult to explain, especially as it is not one of 
the common waifs of ballast or Baer noo 
Rubus carpinifolius W. & N. Hedges at Downhead Common, 
N. iene - i e abundance. Considered typical by the Rev. 


h Ww 
of glandular bristles. Itis the R. Sprengelii as it has been described 
by Genevier. 

*R. Borrert Bell-Salter. This well-marked bramble occurs at 
Mangotsfield, W. Gloucester, somewhat sparingly over a space of 
about 150 yards; and very abundantly at Brislington, near Keyn- 
sham, N. Somerset. At the latter locality it has been known for 
many years, and has from time to time received a great variety of 
names; but the true  esigen of this a _ not ascert pa 

until last summer, when owing to the untiring zeal and gre 
acumen of the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers its vaentite with the pcs! 
12 


116 NOTES ON BRISTOL PLANTS. 


R. Borreri Bell-Salt. was clearly established. Mr. Rogers was well 
acquainted with this Rubus in Dorset before specimens from 


*R. anglosawonicus Gelert. On the borders of King’s Wood 
towards Congresbury, N. Somerset. Dr. Focke says of Enis that it 
is a — different from the usual forms, but not in any essenti 
pot 

The bramble, abundant on Clifton Down, that stands as Radula 
in the Flora, p. 60, having been so named by the late Mr. Briggs 
some years before anglosawonicus was found to be British, has since 


described by Mr. Howes in his ‘ Ess ssay.’ Precisely the same thing 
so by the Avon under Sneyd Park, at Henbury, and at 
Hanham in West Gloucester; and at Brisl poems ee, 
Stanton Drew, Woollard Kod Leigh Wood in N. Som 
rosaceus W. & N. var. d. infecundus Rogers. a .. 
Sele to wehioh Mr. Ro — has given the above varietal name, 
Glo 


occurs in W. ucester, at Hanham, and by the Avon below 
Clifton ; in both localities ibandaie tly. In N. Somerset it has been 
found at Brislington. Observation extending over several years 


proves that this variety fails to mature its fruit, excepting rarely in 
very small quantity. 
& N. A strong luxuriant form . — aggregate 

grows near the Avon below Sneyd Park, W. Glou 

*R. Kaltenbachii Metsch. jodie Geieaiad ¢ on age — of 
King’s Wood, towards Congres , N. Somerset; and found to 
agree exactly with the ering ade known in the ate 
division of the district. 

* Sedum —— dab. sige: Koch. Very sparingly in woods 
above the Avon at Hanham, in W. Gloucester; and abundantly at 
Brislington, N. Somerset. Much smaller in all its parts than a. 

purpurascens, from which it seems quite distinct as a variety, and 
does not alter in cultivation. 
_ Anchusa officinalis L. Alien. Near Fox’s Wood, Brislington, 
N. Somerset. Ge aankie by Mr. Withers, who has known it several 


sperugo procumbens L. Alien; with the last. Also observed 
by Mr. Withers sivieal seasons, and no doubt derived from the 
source. Mr. Withers, too, found this plant last summer in 

an arable field at nea near Bath, rather plenti 
*Symphytum officinale L. var. patens Sibth. This variety, which 
occurs in N. Somerset, at Brass Knocker Wood, near Bath, differs from 
the typical form by its larger and more globular corolla, ofa light pure 
blue colour mixed with white; somewhat shorter and blunter calyx- 
teeth; broader (more ovate-lanceola ate) leaves, abruptly rounded 
at the base, and only slightly decurrent; and lastly, by its tougher, 
less succulent, and more stiffly hairy s stem, which has only raised 
lines instead of very prominent wings as in S. officinale. From the 
above it will be seen that patens is a much more distinctly marked 


———— 


DISTRIBUTION OF LEJEUNE IN IRELAND. 117 


variety than might be inferred from the descriptions to be found in 
the text-books. That of Dr. Bosw well in E. B., ed. 8, is the most 


the remarkable colour of the inflorese cence—red in bud, changing 


rendered. 

Chenopodium h ba sae L. in N. Somerset. pi last ni Maes 
ber in Bath, growing on rubbish heaps and waste ground, at t 
localities Ecahat widely apart. Quoted for N. Seidieee in Top. 


following records of its occurrence in N. Somerset, where it has 

been found at Berrow; near South Brent ; ; Olenaicis: Compton 

Dando; Saltford and Walton-in-Gordano. The trees at Clevedon 

and Walton-in-Gordano are typical and female. Those at Saltford, 
m 


Hl pr nce 

* Scirpus Tabernemontani Gmel. An addition to the Flor 
Abundant for sixty yards or so in one of the marsh ditches between 
Draycott and Wedmore. This is not on record for N. 8 set. 


Fo 
wet ditches below Cheddar, N. Somerset. The examples were con- 
sidered by Mr. Bennett to be unusually characteristic and typical. 


DISTRIBUTION OF LEJEUNEA IN IRELAND. 
By tue Rev. C. H. Sderrerrige 


g to account for the present distribution of Mosses, especially 
Trelan in ore attention ought to be direc o the 
altered state of the , once covered with woods, whose shady, 


are G, — disappeared, the drained country has become 
r, and these damp-loving species are now rarities, only to be 
found in the iebemon'o of a few shady ravines to which they have 
tired. Is it not probable that these were common ery in the 
ireland of St. Patrick’s days? Even in the time r. John 
Templeton, who diligently studied the Moss-flora of ame and 


118 ADDITIONAL RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLES. 


Down during the years 1801 to — some species were more 
plentiful than they are now, and some have disa peared. 
Let me pes an Hlaaieekion of this Process. In 1885 Jubula 


up the park, 4 the Spinkwee river, so that it is not extinct in that 
neighbourhoo 

1 would own the Meeps localities for a few species (some 
of them noted in Stewart & oe soe lora of N. E. Ireland) as ad- 
ene to those given by 

Homalo- Lejeunea Mackaii (Hook). <Roligneate Park (Down); 
Sioa (Antrim); Omeath (Lou 
arpa-Lejeunea ovata Tayl. Slave Donard (Down) ; Glenariff 
oo m). 
: Drepano- Lejeunea so ee —— Donard; Tolly- 
more Pack, Collin Glen ; nariff ; 

Eu-Lejeunea flava ( at Pdivtanes va an — Eu- 
Lejeunea patens Lindb. Tollymore Park; Glena 

Micro-Lejeunea ulicina Tayl. Gillhall (Dow ee 

Colo-Lejeunea calearea Lib. Tollymore Park; Glenariff ; 
Omeath. 

Coluro-Lejeunea calyptrifolia (Hook.) It appears from a MS. of 
Mr. Chaat s that this rare species was found at Luttrellstown 
Dublin), 

( Acrobolbus Wilsoni Tayl. ¢. fr. Collin Glen (Antrim). 

Jubula bi stehionie (Hook.). Tollymore Park; Rebktenoe (Down); 
Lodore (Cumber 

Radula cae Tayl. Slieve Donard. 

Adelanthus decipiens (Hook.) Mitt. Plish Wood (Sligo). 


ADDITIONAL RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLES. 
By A. Somervitziz, B.Sc., F.L.S. 


Sivce the publication in the Journal of Seg for 1864 
(pp. 102-120) of the valuable contribution b . F, Townsend, 

-, towards a Flora of the Scilly Isles, the = further commu- 
nication in these pages on the botany of the e Group seems to have 
been that by sae si ca Lawson in the Journal for 1870 (pp. 357- Sigal: 
ted some twenty-five additions to the know 
pote of the Sig Meacreet by that gentleman during a visit in 


Twenty-one years later, at the end of July, 1890, I made a 
short stay on St. Mary’ 
habited athe , St. Martin’s, Tresco, Bryher, and St. Agnes, and, 
in the course of botanical search, met with altogether 300 te 


ADDITIONAL RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLES. 119 


plants. This is- eviged by about fifty than were enumerated by 
Mr. Townsend, but is a large number to have been observable 
during a iy days not eke devoted to work of the kind, and 
when, too, it is remembered, that, as Mr. Townsend peed out, the 
whole group of the Scilly Isles is included in an area of about ten 
es by five, and that the highest land does not rise to over 200 

feet above sea- ee 
Of the plants obtained me examples were, at the time, 
transmitted in the fresh state to Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., for 


the favour of his confirming their identification, and em 

re were y to be, 1 forty-four species and 
ars. unmentioned by Messrs. Townsend or Lawson, or ot ise 
Se poned as met rgen on the islands. It may be the case that 
some ority, of these may have been included in the 


the 

Flora of Caves prepare ed by the late Mr. Ralfs, but this remains 
as yet in MS., and it is not known whether the Penzance Natural 
pooch and Antiquarian Society intend to undertake its pub- 
lication 

The fo llowing is a list of the new records referred to, and for 
which I have not thought it necessary to indicate localities, viz.:— 
Ranunculus Lenormandi F. Sch. +C. Parthenium Pers. 
R. sardous Orantz. b. parvulus Anagallis cerulea Schreb. 

ys esl pe cespitosa Schultz. 
FumariapallidifloraJord.b.Borai Veronica montana L. 
Jord. 


Pe ‘licularis palustris L. 
Raphanus Raphanistrum L. Orobanche amethystea Thuill. 
Polygala serpyllacea Weihe. } Calami segs bay ae Moench. 
Geranium Robertianum L. Plantago ., b. intermedia 
Medicago denticulata Willd. (Gili a i 
+ Trifolium incarnatum L. Polygonum Roberti Loisel. 
T. scabrum L. —_ pr sige Murr. 
+T. hybridum L. June us 
Vicia sepium L. Paedces pusill us L 
Prunus insititia L. Ruppia rostellata Koch. 
Rubus discolor (auct. angl.). Zostera marina Li. 
Potentilla procumbens Sibth. Scirpus Tabernemontani Gmel. 
Callitriche hamulata Kuetz. Carea muricata L, 
C. obtusangula Le Gall. Alopecurus pratensis L. 
Peplis Portula L. armen alba L., ¢. maritima Mey. 
Epilobium palustre L. alba Li, var. major. 
Pimpinella Saxifraga L. a mpsia cespitosa Beauv. 
Filago spathulata Presl. Festuca uniglumis Soland. 
Pulicaria dysenterica Geertn. Agropyron repens Beauy., b. bar- 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum L. batum Duval-Jouve. 


Of the above only one, viz., Festuca a Soland., had not 
been ag esioncdh ao for Cornwall 

Mr. d, when he wrote, alluded j a sd sf a Dhara 
of the falas itis chiefly derived from early 
potatoes. Of recent years a fresh and ae ath eh ‘ey Ihe as 
sprung up, in the cultivation and export, in early spring and later, 


120 iN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN CARRINGTON. 


of flowers, mainly lilies of all kinds, to markets throughout 
England and Scotland. This now absorbs the attention of large as 
well as small holders, and on St. Mary’s there are many flower 
farms to be seen. The industry is especially important in view of 
the declining returns from the lobster and other fisheries on which 
the inhabitants at one time so greatly depended. I have it on good 


visit, and for kind trouble taken by him in connection with them 
since, 


IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN CARRINGTON. 


Brngamin Carrincton was born at Lincoln on January 18th, 
1827. _ He studied at Liverpool and the University of Edinburgh ; 
was apprenticed at Liverpool to Dr. M‘Nicoll ; graduated M.R.C.S. 
Eng., 1850, and M.D. Kdin., 1851 ; practised first at Radcliffe, 
near Manchester; then in succession at Lincoln, Yeadon, South- 
port, and Eccles. Twenty years ago he settled at the latter place, 
where he became Medical Officer of Health, a position which he 
resigned about two years ago, on account of continued ill-health, 
He removed to Brighton, where after much patient suffering he 
passed away, on the 18th of January, his 66th birthday, and was 
buried in the Carlton Hill Cemetery. 

Whilst studying at Edinburgh, Dr. Carrington wrote a mono- 
graph of the British grasses, and illustrated it with a set of speci- 
mens, with dissections of the minuter organs, so beautifully and 
accurately prepared that they won for him the admiration of the 
leading botanists of the University. Here he made the acquaint- 

; , and oubt his life's 
devotion to et ss botany was influenced originally by these 
s 


He was an enthusiastic naturalist, but it is of his contributions 
to botanical science, and more particularly to Hepaticology, that 
I wish to write. In a letter I received from him some years ago, 


IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN CARRINGTON. 121 


peer to Anthelia julacea var. clavuligera, he remarks :—‘‘ Curiously 
ungermannia I ever collected, having met 

with it on the mountains near Glen Shee, August, 1850. Iremember 
the circumstance, because I could not make out at first whether it 
as a ee or hepatic.’’ For some years following, short papers, 
chiefly on mosses, appeared from his pen, and he began a corres- 
pondence with nearly all the leading ceypiogalals botanists of 


Gottsche and Lindberg, on the Continent; and Wilson, Hooker, 

Spruce and others, here. In 1861 he visited the south of Ireland: 

the result of this visit was the appearance of his interesting . 
le ished in Trans. 


Bot. Soc. Edin. in 1863—an extensive list of Lichens, Mosses and 
gent with beta pie on many species, especially of the 
latter order. It illustrated by two beautiful plates, which 
jridieats the skill c had neon in the art of delineating crypto 
gamic plants. Another m8 of this visit to Ireland was the riols 
contribution he made to Rabenhorst’s Bryotheca Europea, and 
Gottsche and Pabeaciaton s Hepatice Europea, one part of the latter 
being almost composed of the doctor’s collecting. 

In 1862 appeared Miall and Carrington’s Flora of the West 
Riding, for which he compiled ‘the list of Cryptogams. About this 
time he began to prepare a work on the British Hepatice, corres- 
ponding with all collectors and those interested in this group. In 
1 


British Jungermannia in 1816. The fourth part had an ominous 
note appended, whisk stated that in consequence of the indisposition 
of the author the letterpress was some pages short. For some time 
he continued in a very low state of health, and about the years 
1880 and 1881 he had to undergo several painful operations, under 
which his friends were afraid he would succumb. e rallied, how- 


Encyclopedia Britannica. In 1878 we issued the first part of our 
epatice Britannice et in the preparation of which Dr. 
Carrington took great eos 
In 1876 


happiest finds, Hygrobiella tegen This he  aitichel. with 
several new species, in the Jans. Bot. Soc., Hdin., vol. xiii. (1879). 
d 


Antipodes,—Mr. Thomas Whitelegge to New South Wales, Mr. 
Bastow to Tasmania—sent large collections of Hepatice, which we 
her 


_stipce by twelve plates, the cost of which was potas 
defrayed by the late Sir William MacLeay ; those of Mr. Bastow 
in tha Proc. Royal Soc, of Tasmania for 1887. These were rn two 


122 SHORT NOTES, 


inet papers published by Dr. Carrington. In the same year he was 

ected a Corresponding Member of the Linnean Society of N. §. 
Wales and of the Royal Society of Tasmania. On the e resignation 
of the first President, Mr. John Whitehead, he was elected President 


The gents British Hepatice were either found or identified 
as British by him :—Cesia crenulata (Gott.), sent to Dr. Gottsche as 
I t 


concinnata in Dr » ee herbarium. C. crassifolia (Carr.), col- 
lected near Ben La y the late Dr. A. O. Black. Marsupella 
sphacelata {Giesecke), ales by the late G. E. Hunt on Ben 

ac Dhui andor, 1868. M. Nevicencis (Carr.), col- 


lected on a spel by Mr. John Whitehead, July, 1875. 
Scapania Bartlingii (Hampe), first recorded as British from speci- 
mens collected on rocks near the Strid, Bolton Woods, Yorkshire, 
Hygrobiella myr iocarpa (Carr.) Spruce, discovered near Ben 
Venue, July, 1876. Riccia glaucescens Carr., discovered at Barmouth, 
N. fi. tumida Lindenb., collected by Mr. Joshua, near Mon- 
mouth, May, 1877. . sorvcarpa Bischoff, collected by B. M. 
Watkins ou Great Doward Hill, near Ross. 
of our rarest and most beautiful hepaties was named in his 
paler by the late Prof. Balfour, and Herr J. B. Jack, in his 
monograph of the ny ay Radula, aaa one of the rarest, 
Radula Carringtoni, after hir 
out twelve months = his mene collection was acquired 
for a Manchester Museum by the Owen’s College authorities, and 
under the care of Prof. F, E. Weiss it has been arranged and is 
now ssocigeces to pipe oe 


co) 
Ne 


gy H. Pearson. 


SHORT NOTES. 


Lo: > atone ren Tayl. (p. 77). — “« Near Conway, N. Wales, 
W. Wilson, 18 may be added to the stations mentioned by 
tit tee this rare hepatic. In 1889 I collected it in 
Prat. quantity at Trefriw, probably Wilson’s station. — W. H. 


LA.—Mons. R. Buser, of Geneva, is desirous of having 
the pone of sndying 1 British forms of Alchemilla vulgaris and 
A. alpina to see if a espond to named Continental vars. 
I shall be fepny to snk ahates of any specimens that reach me 


BOTANY AND OUTLINE FLORA OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 123 


(at Crymlyn, Bournemouth) during April, and forward them to 
M. Buser. Botanists sending specimens will please make it clear 
whether they wish their ‘a hoa returned, and will number those 
that are not required back.—Epwarp F. Linon 
priLopiuM Lamyi F, Schultz. —- This is omitted from the list of 
* First a and, if intentionally, I fail to see on what grounds. 
cannot well be - sed over as an wing since it has all the 


mention, in a list in which F. alpinum L. and E. anagallidifolium 
a are both admitted; considering the convincing testimon 
Mes roves (Journ. Bot. 1889, 1 09) and the Rev. E. 8. 
Marshall (Journ. Bot. 1889, 146; 1890, 6) have given to the vie 
adopted by Nyman and Prof. Hanssimeeht, that these are two 


— 
oe 


on 
Surrey); date, 1884, when his monograph of the genus was 
published. Mr. R. F. Towndrow tells me that it was through his 
being shown the sheet in the British Museum, Mr. H. 
Ridley, that he recognised in 1885 the plant in Worcestershire. 
The distinction between EH. Lamyi and its nearest congen ers, E. 
matum Griseb. and E.. obscurum Behe: ., 18 well drawn out in this 
Journal (1889, 5; and 1890, 145) by Mr. Marshall, ee tells me in 
a recent letter that on offspring of these species, viz., LE. adnatum 
x Lamyi and E. Lamyi x ye net um, is, in his mas ct uniformly 
sterile-—Epwarp F, Dias 


NOTICES OF BOOKS, 


Botany and Outline Flora a Lincolnshire. By F. Arnoutp Less, 
M.B.C.S., L.R.C.P. Reprinted Ping baad 8 History, 
Gazetteer, and Dison of the County. 

a of West Yo ae oa pete to the 
g to 


reorerames he has failed to fulfil his purpose: such a list should 
accurate and complete, and Mr. Lees’ Outline Flora possesses 
neither of these esse sontils. rv examples of inaccuracy I m may poi 
out that the records for Medicago minima and Didymodon sinuosus 
are both incorrect ; that Ray’s record for eink aes tectorum is 
for v.-c. 53 ethene Lines.), not North Lines. ; that Lastrea Oreopteris 
has been recorded for v.-c. 54 (North Lines. ) by Mr. Fowler; and 
that Ray’s ; Tetford Wood Geum was G. intermedium, not typical 
rivale. Of minor importance is the fact that in several cases first 


124 THE YEAR-BOOK OF SCIENCE, 


records can be traced back to an earlier date and authority ; thus a 

ines. record for Stratiotes aloides is to be found in Johnson’s 
Gerard (1636); Ray recorded Salicornia herbacea for Lincs. in the 
Historia Plantarum (1686); and Chara vulgaris was found in 1876 
by Dr. H. F. Parsons. In some cases the authorities quoted are 
incorrect; thus Aulacomnium palustre var. imbricatum was Mr. 
P k’ t mine; and several other mosses attributed 


he thanks of Lincolnshire botanists are due to Mr. Lees for 
placing a mark (!) against those plants which he has himself seen 


cannot help being amused at the way in which he disposes of 
others as ‘‘mis-nomers,” ‘ mis-c nceptions,”’ ‘‘ambiguities,” &c. 
I could wish that the very interesting and useful prefatory remarks 
had been amplified at the expense of the space devoted to “ First 
Records.” 

A great deal of drudgery will still have to be undergone by 
someone in the form of wading through volume after volume of 
topographical and botanical works, and herbaria (more often than 
not, perhaps, quite fruitlessly), before a complete Lincolnshire 
plant-list can be produced. To give some idea of what yet remains 
to be done, I may mention the following among other herbaria 


Herb. Plukenet; Herb. Merrett; the York Museum Herbarium, 
containing Rey. J. Dalton’s Botanist’s Guide record specimens, as 


a 
Lincoln, and now (or lately) in the custody of Mr. C. Simpson, of 


J. Burrr Davy. 


The Year-book of Science. Edited for 1892 by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 
D.Se., LL.D., F.R.S. Cassell & Co. 8vo, pp. viii, 519. 
Price 7s. 6d. 

We are glad to welcome the second annual issue of what may 
become the Hazeil’s Cyclopedia or Whitaker’s Almanac of science. 
Before, however, it attains that position, it will require to be more 
complete than it is at present. While fully recognising the merits 
of the work, we propose to draw attention to a few of its deficiencies. 


THE YEAR-BOOK OF SCIENCE. 125 


‘‘ Biology” is divided into ‘‘ Animal ”’ and ‘ Botanical’’; and 
while our remarks apply almost exclusively to the latter section, we 
cannot but wonder in which division such a book as Darwin’s 
Origin of Species, or Weismann’s Essays upon Heredity, would have 
been classed. Books and papers do “still appear on general bio- 
logical principles, and a section should have been set apart for 
their reception; Prof. Romanes’ Darwin and after Darwin, reviews 
of which appeared in this Journal and elsewhere, might then 
have been mentioned; and Karl Pearson’s Grammar of geoneny 
though of = not purely biological, might be recorded s 


where in the book. A similar Par oe will “apply to the Botanical 
section. U ee af prec ” heading would fall text-books, surely 
sometimes worthy of record, as, fee instance, anes © stimable 


Lirik, the gb volume of which appeared last yea 
ere are four divisions :—Systematic and Gecarasisienl Botany, — 

by W. B. Hemsley; Morphology and Biology, by G. Massee; Minute 
H siol . E. Weiss. Hac 


A cott; and Phy , by h 
division is subdivided, and in the first three the subdivisions are 
agai In *‘ Minute Anatomy ” the arrangement is rational 


enough; of the two subdivisions, Histology and Anatomy, the 
second includes the two headings, General and Special; but Messrs. 
Hemsley and Massee are not happy in their grouping. The 
Systematic and Geographical division contains the f ollowing sub- 
divisions, all, at any rate typographically, of the same value :— 
Nomenclature, Descriptive, The British Flora, The Asiatic Flora, 
New Chinese and Japanese Plants, Australian and Polynesian 
Flora, The African ec, The American Flora, Geographical, 
Orchids, Figures of Plants, Miscellaneous, and—the Kew Bulletin 


of Miscellaneous Informatio ro e es of text 
under Descriptive, it is vidently a large subdivision includin 
the following ‘“ Floras,”’ and comparable in importance with 


Geography, Orchids, or the Kew Bulletin. ‘* Miscellaneous” con- 
sists chiefly of monographs or revisions of Orders, and is ve 

incomplete; no mention is made of the several parts of Engler and 
Prantl’s valuable and well-known alors enfamilien, or the two 
parts of Baillon’s Histoire des Plant We reca , too, a classifi- 
cation of Solanaceea suggested by Wettstein, and Tepor orted in the 
Centralblatt, but omitted here. Of course, in so small a volume we 


portance. Mr. Hemsley places “* Nomenclature ” first, “ beca 
there has been unusual activity in this direction.” Unfortunately, 
instead of giving the rules proposed by the Berlin —— 
writes a summary of the points at issue as these appear to him, 
and seems to approve of those who “ would continue to use names 
that have long been current, regardless of the law of petority, 
i 0 1). 


promise, but it would be interesting if Mr. Hemsley had given the 
date from which “recent work” may be supposed to start and 


126 THE YEAR-BOOK OF SCIENCE. 


priority is to be observed. If the few lines in which Dr. Dyer (in 
Nature) expresses his opinion are worthy of record, Mr. Britten’s 
exhaustive paper in Natural Science should have been mentioned; 
but that journal is entirely ignored throughout the botanical 
section of the Year-book. Mr. N. E. Brown, by the way, appears 
to have discovered the secret of perpetual youth, for Mr. Hemsley 
refers to him as “a young botanist,” although he has completed 
twenty years’ work in the Kew Hebari 


oreover, we should expect to find Massee’s monograph of 


viii plates, including descriptions and illustrations of nearly fifty 
new species, and Solms Laubach’s account of three Genera of 


The confusion of headings in the part devoted to Morphology 
and Biology is even greater. The sub ivision Phanerogams is 
considered under three headings,—Morphology, On the nature and 


exhaustive Beitrage zur Biologie der Lianen, nor under Morphology 
to Schumann’s valuable Morphologische Studien, in which he con- 
tinues his work on the Inflorescence, 


in the brief note on the important Splachnidium paper a serious 
mistake gives .# wrong impression of the result. The authors make 
three suggestions as to the nature of the fruit, which the recorder 


8 : a 
blunder, for the authors dispose of the first and second, and adopt 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 127 


the third, a new order being founded on this and other characters 
not mentioned by the recorder. Confusion such as this is apt to 
shake one’s confidence in the value of the recor 
The record of Physiology might have been fuller. With few 
exceptions it consists of short accounts of papers which have 
i ls. 


t is curious that Mr. Hick should have forgotten Seward’s 
ossil Plants as tests of Climate, which he reviewed for this Journal 
rite omits from his Paleobotanical recor’ 
A. B, Renp.e, 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Bot. Centralblatt. (No. 9). —R. Franzé, ‘ Ueber oo Prissy 
Structur der Spe — von Chara Metre — (No. ‘ 
Eg nulle 2 plates). “iN 11). 
A. Baha beds : Usher eine dchoeite Secretion bei Xanthorr. 

Bot. Gazette (Feb. 15).—F. B. Maxwell, arse ve s int of 
cocks of Ranunculaceae’ (8 plates). — C. Rober son, ‘Flowers and 
J. M. Coulter & ose, ‘ ic 


(tonalite gen. nov.: 1 plate). — A. Schneider, ‘ Influence of 

anesthetics on plant transpiration ’ (1 plate). — O. F. Cook, ‘Is 
Polyporus carnivorous ?’ 

Botanical Magazin (Tokio), — (Jan. 10). R. Yatabe, Dianella 
straminea, “ad 

Bull. Her bier Boissier (March).—P. Hennings, ‘ Fungi 
ZEthiopico- sabi (2 plates). — C. DeCandolle, ‘ Sur les bravtées 
pinot (1 plate).--P. Paiche, ‘ Zannichellia tenuis.’ —— J. Miiller, 

nes Acabied et Amboinenses.’ 
"Bull, Soc. Bot. France (xxxix: Session en aig ware — A. Bat- 


tandier, ‘Les anciens botanistes algériens.’— E. Guinier, ‘La 
waokeation sous le couvert des arbres.’ — J. erage a 
ee géo-botanique a Saapata salants.’ — L. Trabut, 

ion du Cocos nucifera.’ — Id., ‘ Dehiscence des aesiax cos 


ay ‘Evenly — — L. R. Clary, ‘ Herborisations dans le Djeleb 
A — Podanthum aurasiacum Batiandier & Trabut, sp. n. 
(1 slats 

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Feb.). — T. Morong, Listera bor i 
sp. n., and notes on Orchids. — G. B. Sudworth, Nomenclatur 
P. A. Rydberg, ‘The American Black Cottonwood ’ (Populus 
angustifolia James & P. acuminata, sp.n.: 1 plate). aa D. Hal- 
sted, ‘A Century of American Weed Seeds,’—A. A. H Heller, ‘ Flora 
of Luzerne County, Penn.’ -— N. L. Britton, Rusbya (gen. nov. ; 
Vacciniacea). 

Erythea savage —E. L. Greene, ‘Observations on pinta : 
—A, Davidson, ‘ Immigrant Plants of Los Angelos County.’—F. v 
Mueller, « on Juasiea ie Linneus.’ — W. L. Jepson, ‘ Studies in 
Californian Umbellifere.’—-M. A. Howe, ‘ Monterey Bay.’ — F. T, 
Bioletti, ‘ New Californian Plants,’ 


128 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle (Feb. 25). — Galanthus byzantinum Baker, 


sp. n 

Irish Naturalist (March).—R. Ll. Praeger, ‘Flora of Co. Armagh’ 
(cont.). — W. Swanston, ‘ <0 opeth Wood of Lough Neagh.’ — N. 
Dama ‘Flora of Aran Islan 


Journal 
Avalon pement de la graine’ (cont.). a (Feb. 16). J. Ves esque : ee 
tribu des eens (cont.).— G. Poirault, ‘L’oxalate de calcium 


ari 
Ust gisSbeat — -( mr. 4). ;  Tieghem, ‘Classification des 
Ba aear oehes — E. Belzung, * Sur les sore et les nitrates 
es plantules en voie de germination.’ — (Mar. 1,16). J. Miiller, 
‘* Lichenes neo-caledonici ’ (cont.). 
Midland Naturalist foareatt -— W. Mathews, ‘ County Botany of 
Worcester ’ co .—J.E. Bagnall, ‘Notes on the Flora of Warwick- 
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129 


GYROMITRA GIGAS (Krompu.) Cooxg, 
By WituaM Parties, F.L.S. 
(Piate 334.) 


Tue occurrence in England of so rare a species of the Disco- 
mycetes as Gyromitra gigas (Krombh.) not only justifies a record in 
the Journal of Botany, but affords an opportunity of revising the 
descriptions previously published by the light of living examples 

veryone engaged in the study of the fleshy fungi must have 
frequently felt how unsatisfactory it is to be limited to dried herbarium 


specimens, which refu reassume any near approach to their 
atural condition when soaked i ter, ent im 
possibility of restoring the more evanescent characters they once 
f the s s under consideration this 


applies in an especial manner, on account of the great diversity of 
form it assumes in the same group of specimens. Size, colour, 
folding of the hymenium, presence or absence of a stem—all v vary 
within wide limits, that from only one or two figures of an 
author a very nadeate idea can be formed of its polymorphous 
saad sate: 

omitra gigas was originally described by Krombholz as an. 
Helvella, from which genus it was removed by Dr. Cooke in his 


m, on what appears to be 
sufficient ground, viz., the form of the folds of the pileus. There 
are two records of its appearance in England; the first by the. late 
Mr. Frederick Currey, in a paper entitled ‘‘ Notes on British Fungi,” 
read before the Linnean Society, June 18th, 1863,* in which he 
said, ‘This fine species has occurred once only, in a garden in 
Blackheath Park. It would seem from Krombholz’s fies to vary 
a good deal in colour. My specimen was brownish ye ellow.” No 
a word is said by Mr. Currey in reference to the size of the plant, 
an important character, nor yet of the form of the pileus, which in 
so variable a species should have been described ; and ag yp 
the original specimen cannot be traced at Kew igure is given 
of an ascus with its eight sporidia, ene 220 toca from 
which it appears the “sporidia are elliptic, as in G. aed — 
bee granular protoplasm, and an unusually large size. Thes 

ecorded occurrence of the species is in the Annals ¢ Sagat: “f 
Nat, Hist. 1875 (No. 1476), by Messrs. elie ey and Broome, in 
these Tonge ‘‘On the ground. Coed Coch, Mrs, Lloyd Wiynne, 
March, 4.” Here again we are not infor med what were the 
more striking features of the plant, and no drawing, as far as I can 
earn, was made at ‘ime. The original specimen is in the Kew 
Herbarium, and from it the sporidia are drawn in Dr, Cooke’s 
figure 327, ‘in Myeoamaphia but the figure of the plant which is 
given in that work is derived from another source; the sporidia 
are represented as fusiform, ee the dimensions 82 x 10-12 p . Now, 


* Linn. Trans. xxiv. p. 152, t. 25, fig. 25. 
Journat or Borany.—Vot. 81. [May, 1893.] K 


180 GYROMITRA GIGAS (KROMBH.) COOKE, 


if we turn to Krombholz's figure of the sporidia of gigas, we find 
they are elliptic, and furnished with two guttw#, which characters 
forbid the idea that the Coed Coch specimen ean be the same 
species. I am informed that Mr. Berkeley had in his herbarium 
specimens under the name of H. gigas, from Professor Troe, of 
Bern, which have the same fusiform sporidia as the Coed Coch 
specimen ; hence it is probable that, accepting the Swiss plant as 
the true H. gigas, he was induced to refer the British plant to the 
same species. 

Before I proceed to describe a Gyromitra found in Oxfordshire, 
which I regard as the undoubted H. gigas of Krombholz, it will be 
well to reproduce the very ample description of it given by its 
author in his valuable work. 

titra gigas (Krombh.) — fae described by Krombholz 


und hergebogenen Lappen; mit dickem, zellichten, wachsahnlichen, 
weisslichen, von aussen grubigen, fast glatten Strunke; mit grossen 
Schlauchen und eiférmigen grossen Sporen; und mit einem dicken, 
verbreiteten, wachsartig-filzigen Wurzelgeflechte. 

Helv. pileo magno, lobato, undulato, plicato vel crispo, pallido, 
albido vel ochraceo : lobis stipiti subadnatis adpressis subundulatis ; 
stipite crasso, celluloso, ceraceo, albido, extus lacunoso, subglabro ; 
ascis majusculis ; sporis magnis, ovalibus ; mycelio ceraceo-tomen- 
toso, crasso, effuso. 

‘* Beschreibung. Der Hut dieses gréssten unter den bei 
vorkommenden Laurichen ist 4 bis 12 Zoll breit und hoch, héchst 
wandelbar und unregelmiissig. In der Jugend und bei sehr kleinen 
Exemplaren ist er 8 Zoll breit und hoch, und bildet dann gewohnlich 
20 bis 80 Falten; seine Lappen sind dann an einigen Stellen in die 
Hohe gezogen, an deren innern Fliche mit ihren Falten an jene 
des Strunkes theilweise angewachsen, und ihre freien Rinder 
immer dem Strunke angedriickt. In altern Pilzen wird der Hut 


allen Arten der Gattung) kein m; sie sind verschieden gross, 
laufen nach den manigfaltigsten Richtungen, anastomosiren jedoch 
seltener als bei den In. Die Felder sind daher héchst 


irregular und nicht mehr mit diesem Namen zu belegen, da sie 
neeewcaie iy und keine regelmissig geschlossene Felder bilden. 
** Die b t ei j 


utsubstanz is Fortsetzung jener des Strunkes, 
edoch Ww gebrechlich, fast wachsartig und durech- 
scheinend. Sie erreicht oft bis 4 Linie Dicke, und ist unmittelbar 
mit der auchlage (dem Hymenium), welche + Linie e 


gefirbt, und besteht aus grossen, keuligen, 6- bis 8 sporigen 
hlauchen mit Nebenfiaden. Die Sporen selbst sind gross und 

vollkommen oval. 

_ “Der Strunk ist 2 bis 8 Zoll hoch, und 23 bis 8-2 Zoll breit, aus 

einer wachsartigen, in diinnen Lagen etwas durchscheinenden, bis 

1 Linie di Bie is 


n 
e dicken Masse gebildet, t vielfach zellig und grubig, 


GYROMITRA GIGAS (KROMBH.) COOKE, 131 


und bildet da, wo der Zellendurchmesser sehr gering ist, eine 


Hinsicht der Grésse als des Dystanaes verschieden ; er ist um vi 
hoher als der Hut selbst, und die Hutlappen gehen em bis auf 
die Hirde herab, oder in das untere Drittheil des Str 

“Das Mycelium scheint die unmittelbare Vatlbtgokea des 

nkes zu seyn, und ist gleichfalls zellig, wachsartig, und 
verbreitet fei tief in die rde. ahe dem Mycelium, oder 
vielmehr ihm aufwarts, ist der Strunk sammtartig, weiss, 
welcher hasvekicaes Uebareak héher hinauf _ zart wird. 

rer Grésse wegen zur Speise sehr anwendbar ; 


in der Nahe von Prag vor. Sie lisst sich an der t gut trocknen, 
der Hut wird iaukabenes. der Strunk aber bleibt weiss und dicht.’’* 

In July, 1891, Mrs. 8. Coker Beck, of Crowell Rectory, sent 
me some specimens of an unkn a and remarkable fungus gathered 
at Sherbourne, Oxfordshire, on Lord Macclesfield’s property, in a 
field on a hill- side, under beech trees, having so. mewhat the appear- 
ance of Sparassis crispa. The pilei varied in size from 8 in. to 8 ft. 
in circumference, being in form globose, hemispherical, fate, 
or irregular ; in a young stage the folds of the hymenium were of 


the typical form of Gyromitra, but when older eo! iar flattened 


into broad pendent crisped flounces, resembling fig. 827 in Cooke’s 
Mycographia ; while young they were creamy-white, often tinged 
with pale purple, passing with age into pale ochre, and then to 
fulyous-brown ; stem short, thick, or sometimes absent The flesh 
was somewhat waxy, and exceedingly pre In section there was 
no sterile axis above the stem ileus consisting within of 
irregular cavities, divided and vabdivided by double oe oe 
were clothed with the hymenium. I found the asci to be cy 

drical, furnished with eight elliptic sporidia, 10-12 x 6-7 yp»; 


paraphyses slender, somewhat thickened at the apices. 7 odour 
and taste it very much resembles the mushroom (Agaricus cam- 
ret pee the flesh is very slow t o decay. 
wo young specimens slandives. if in the Plate 834 accom- 
suiivihe pete notes have been selected with the intention of 
showing that the structure of the pileus is that of Gyromitra; had 
a more advanced specimen been selected, it would not have enabled 
e reader to determine to which genus, Helvella or Gyromitra, it 
should be referred. 
In ae wine I venture to think that the many points 
me. 


sidered a sufficient justification for my regarding the two as 
identical. As regards the plant from Blackheath and from Coed 
Coch, there is so little light to guide us to a just conclusion, first, 


sad: mbholz, Naturgetreue Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der 
essbaren shbaitanon und "verdiichtigen Schwiimme, iii. 28, t. 20, figs. 1—5. 
Kk 2 


132 NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 


as to whether they belong to Leann or Gyromitra, and, secondly, 
whether they are both the same species, that I will not on the 
occasion offer any acaba: on the subject, but may return to it 
again hereafter. 

Finally, one word of thanks to Mrs. Coker Beck for taking the 
trouble to make a long journey to obtain additional specimens 
when the first were damaged in transit; to Dr. Cooke, for informa- 
tion respecting specimens in the Kew ‘Herbarium ; and to Mr. G. 

urray, for the like fayour with regard to the British cnet 


N oF Prate 334.—Fig. 1. A young specimen of Gyromitra ee 
(Kvombh.) )s showing the typical gyrose structure of the hymenium, nat. s 
A section of the same, showing the cavi week of the sui sod of She @ pleas, 
a like ea of the exterior, are clothed with the hymenium. older 
sessile specimen, to illustrate o ae of the any Socie ee specie ae 
4. Ascus and paraphyses, x 400. 5. Sporidia, x 400. 6. Cells of the pseudo- 
parenchyma, x 400. 


NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 
By Arruur Bennert, F.L.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 230.) 


In trying to get together ees respecting this genus, 
there are still several forms abou ich no satisfactory facts can 
be ascertained, and * is difficult et sian whether there are 
specimens of these in any herbaria. I shall be grateful for the 
slightest hint peleeind to any of these, especially for the loan of 
specimens. 

Poramocreton GavupiIcHAUDIT nem? f in Linnea, i li. 199 (1827), 
(‘In rivulo dulcis aque urbem Agaiia in insula Guajan percurrente 
legit amicissimus Gaudichaud’’) is one of these.—Chamisso often 

intimates in what herbaria he has seen his plants, but here he 
gives no clue, and there are no specimens at Berlin ee Dr. 


: he ist. 
i, 588 (1869), reproduced in this Journal for 1869, p. 179, Hoe. 
Mann names P. Gaudichaudii Cham. as found in the Hawaiian 
Islands, but whether from description, or seeing original examples, 
I know not.* Of the other pons described by Chamisso, Ses have 
seen original examples of all, except P. Nuttalii and P. americanus. 
I have not succeeded in Si teasinn where the specimens thes on which 
these aee founded. 
of the description of P. Gaudichaudii has induced 
the belief that this may really be conspecific with P. mucronatus 
ee le trp preter eS ache 
seems to have included it in his list under the mistaken notio 
that ocality was in the uae h Islands. Hillebrand (F1. Deoaiian 
Inada . 459) says : — H Man gyi RS P. Gaudichaudii Cham., 
which is referred to P. lucens by Kunt h (Enum. iii. 131), but a reference to his 
quotation (Linnea, ii. 199) shows hat Sendiehend’s plant was collected on the 
island of Guam or Guajan of the Ladrones,”—Ep. Journ. Bor T. | 


NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 1838 


Presl. The Ladrone Islands are quite in phe area of its growth, 
and though Chamisso’s description may n actly agree, still 
the imperfect material he had to deal with: will fally explain the 
difference ; hence I am iecog: inclined to think that P. Gaudt- 
chant Cham. will prove to be the proper name for P. mucronatus 
Pres] = P. malaina Miquel, as it antedates Presl’s name by twenty- 
i years. 

P. aNcEPs Fe ae Cat. Pl. Amer. Sept. No. 9 (1813).— 

I see that Mr. N. E. Brown (Suppl. Eng. Bot. p. 56), under 
Impatiens biflora Walt., accepts the above Catalogue for a publi- 
cation of a name. Is this generally so recognised ?* If so, it may 
alter the nomenclature of several North American ee of 
Potamogeton, which I feel sure my friend Dr. T. Morong will be 
glad to have discussed. I know of no safe reference for this species 
of Muhlenberg. 

pamedaNe) | in the New York Medical Repository, v. 350,t named 
several species of N. American Potamogetons; his specimens were 
apparently Dee when he was shipwrecked off the United States 
coast. me at least of them have been traced by various 
means, but about the following I have no serine information :— 
P. borealis, P. epihydrum, P. ar a P. tenuifo 

C . Var. COLEOPHYLLUS Geacahel and P. prcti- 
NATUS ar. ENANTROPHYLLUS Franchet (Camus, Cat. Plantes de 
Prose, ‘Suisse et Belaiants p. 278, 1888) are eye curious errors, 
arising from M. Camus having mistaken sections for var ieties in 
Franchet’s oe de Loire-et-Cher, p. om for _ i of this 
I am indebted to Dr. Bonnet, of Pari 
y of the apenas described . Wolfgang in Boomer & 
Schultes Mantissa, 3, 1827, have been ascertained, but ‘ P. divari- 
catus = P. setaceus Herb. Gilibert”’ is still Sie unth 
(Enwn, iil. 139 (1841) ) suggests ‘* P. obtusifoliv affinis ?”’ P. rigidus 
is another doubtful plant: according to N yman, Supp, Consp. £1 
Europ. p. 286, Lindemann refers this to P. fluitans, while Schmal- 
hausen assigns it to P. petiolatus—two names that may well 
mean the same thing. Probably both these species are contained 
in Lindemann’s herbarium, so rich in Russian plants. If not, 
species to which they should be referred could likely enough be 
ascertained from the MS. of Wolfgang’s monograph of the genus in 
the Moscow Library. Neither Nyman nor Richter mention P. 
divaricatus. 

Of P. reptans Humnicki, Cat. Pl. Luxeuil, 61 (1876), nothing is 
known at Paris (side Dr. Bonnet). Can anyone throw any light on 
this yg i Soca ? 

DR s 0. F. Lang in Flora, p. 472 (1846), is a form tae 
pectinatus, identified by Lang himself with ‘« P, pectinatus L. B. d. 
paceus Koch in 

P. ELEGANS Wallich, ae 5178.—The type specimens of this in 


* (1 1e list is reeily one of names, yey et descriptions or synonymy, 
and has no claim to recognition.—Ep, 
+ This paper is translated by peeveus' in his pt n. de Botanique, ii. 166-178. 


134 NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 


The likeness to obtusifolius is remarkable, and the error may well 
be excused. It is, however, a form of P. crispus L. P. serrulatus 
unge, “Asia temp.,” I have not seen, unless it be the same as 
Regel and Maack’s plant. 
P. Casparyi F. Kohts in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit. xx. 291 (1870).— 
Is this the same as P. alpinus Balbis = P. rufescens Schrad. ? 
Richter (Pl. Europ. p. 18) makes it a full species, limited to 
Germany. ould be glad to see a specimen. 
Weyl, in Oesterr, Bot. Zeit. 1870, p. 821, says, on Dr. Ascher- 


sufficient to speak with any confidence as to its being a distinct 
species. It is evidently a departure from pusillus L. in the direction 


hardly differing from the name of the section of the genus in 
Franchet’s Flore de Loire-et-Cher, p. 638 (Enantiophyllum). It is 


greatly to be desired that paleontologists would ascertain whether 


I have from the Mauritius, by the kindness of Dr. H. H. Johnston, 
but unfortunately there are no flowers or fruit on the specimens ; 


(To be continued.) 


135 


COLLECTORS’ NUMBERS. 
By C. Baron Crarke, F.R.S. 


Tue citation of collectors’ numbers was carried far by Nees in 
Wight's Contributions as long ago as 1834 (and very likely before 


result the plants are not named so satisfactorily as by numbers, 
i. e., if the collectors’ numbers are properly affixed, as above 
described. 

But unfortunately, while many of the best collections, as 
Balansa, Mandon, Curtiss, Thwaites, are properly numbered, the 
majority of collections, especia y the uropean collections, are not. 

aria 


136 COLLECTORS’ NUMBERS. 


The best way to commence may be perhaps to show first how not 
to do it right. 
The worst of all plans is that adopted by Wallich and by many 


mi 
from various localities is got together; it is then sorted into genera, 
then into species; all the material of one (supposed or estimated) 
Species is well mixed, and then issued under one number. a 
sheet of this kind has to be named, it is necessary to examine every 
scrap on the sheet (a tedious waste of time). If it happens that 
several species (or varieties, or even “‘forms”) are mixed under the 
number, it is useless for citation. The numbers of Wallich, as to 
the “type” sheet in his large-paper collection, are cited sometimes 
in the Flora of British India; but the chief value of such citations 
is to direct a person in London where to go to see the “type” of 
the species described. It is not at all safe to name Wallich’s sheets 
at Calcutta from such citations. 

Another favourite plan with collectors since the days of Sieber 
is to commence a fresh numbering from No. 1 on every excursion. 
We thus get a specimen numbered (instead of 8875, say) ‘‘ Iter 
Madagascarense Secundum, series 8, n. 94.” The effect of this is 
that so long a number is rarely worth citation; our monographs 
have become laboured even with the citing of simple numbers, and 


confusion. It is where externally 

similar plants have been sorted together and then numbered alike 
that the mischief has been done. 

It would be tedious to enumerate the varied plans of authors for 

making their field-numbers useless; some use fractional numbers— 


m 

private index to genera, while the denominator may represent the 

number of the species in the genus, or in some private list of the 
all e 


) 
name ; (2) number; (8) where collected. Many of the plants do 
not pretend to this minimum of information—they are ticketed, 
“Flora of Germany and France, second distribution of Meyer, 
n. 2171,” Here there is no attempt at deception; it is told one 


COLLECTORS’ NUMBERS. 137 


that it is useless for any object to occupy space by citing the 
umber. But it is still more disheartening, after getting together 


numbered) to ag included in the binominal symbol of that list. It 
is troublesome to find the list used; difficult (and rarely worth 
while) to aie what were the supposed limits of the species in 
that list 
The outcome is that, in the case of Europe, I oe find it 
os to decide what is the geographic area of some comm 
-defined species, say, Eleocharis seuistrrode Smith, even to 
within a ie error of 200-400 miles. I can of course determine 
the area by the arm-chair-and-coffee method—by SOP, compiling 
the authorities. But the best authority is not to be trusted one 
inch in such a matter. 1 should not wish to state that " ies 
multicaulis grew in the Atlas unless I had seen a specimen collected 
there, and I should wish then to cite that specimen with the 
collector’s name and genuine field-number. As a matter of fact, a 
very considerable peroentage of FE rat multicaulis was (six years 
ago) named wrongly in Kew and South Kensington, and I need 
therefore add no further priitaer cor it was named elsewhere. 
But, says Mr. J. G. Baker, ‘‘ you work on critical bese e sedges, 
xed numbers 


is exceptional.” To which I reply, are your Crocus pre Tris less 
critical, and are your ferns better numbered ? The South American 
and Indian ferns are much better numbered ieomge the European. 
There are not many plants in herb. H. C. Watson that have a field- 


from one tree, the sheets are numbered 2383 A, 2383 B. And 
small blasts, collected at one time and place (I always 4:8 he 
my own hands), are similarly numbered 2384 B 
I felt morally sure that : had exactly the same for rm. But aa a 
male tree was supposed to belong to a female hard by, I always 
gave them different aes and added a note that t ends 
them one species. I do not know that I could, even from lon 
experience, greatly improve on this plan; I believe it wou uld be 
better, after reaching 9999, to begin at 1 over again; five digits 
cause a sensible delay, in transfer and gr over four digits; as 
explained above, the having two numbers 2773, referring one to 
we the other to something widely different, would lead to no 
sok. 
I have generally cut out from my present work all citations of 
my own sees ge numbers; for, as I issue my p pe nam 
way, no person who gets one can ever be assisted by the 
citation of the number. I am led thus to the curious -eGhintison 


138 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


a unless numbered plants were ete a either wrongly or 
at all, no number would be worth c 
ny may ada, for the guidance of tollaetsi, iat different collectors’ 
dn 


on one of them! On the other hand, Balansa 2 appears, W 
ad an opportunity, to have laid in a great quantity of one saat 
finely collected under the number. Such numbers are very valuable 
g where you are” in a large and critical genus in any 
herbarium. No doub bt collectors endeavour to ere both objects ; 


het he cores upon i 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALGAE OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 


By Eruex 8. Barron. 
(Continued from p. 114.) 


PHLEBOTHAMNION SQUARROSUM Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 


zia. Frons nana, filis 
primariis repentibus, wi wedundastia tenuissimis, erectis, ramosis, ramis 
suboppositis siinipbibbisDtila ; Spherosporis termin : 


.b. Spei. Coll. H. A. Spencer. 
I have named this + Sgjeee after Dr. Schmitz, of me oe who 


CHANTRANSIA SECUNDATA Thar. On Laminaria, near Cage Town, 
Tyson ! 
Geogr. Distr, North Sea, Atlantic. 


CRYPTONEMIACE, 
Scuizymenia Erosa J. Ag. Simon’s Bay, Pappe. 
8. apopa J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe. 
There is an exception to this which I have nid es met with so 1 hegameedy 
that it raitiat modity the above conclusion: viz., that new species are not rarely 
oun on a single specimen issued, say, as 8375 E. Scirpus lacustris Linn., 
and this number cited as the type of the e species. There is thus @ very possible 


ntage in citing the numbers of the ve commonest cies, even when 
issued correctly named. - fies 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 139 


S. opovata J. Ag. Cape, Pappe. 

S. unpuzata J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe. 

ek) LANCEOLATA J. Ag. Cape, Harvey, Pappe. 

ACHYMENIA caRNosA J. Ag. Cam ated Pappe! Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack.! ct Son 175, 372. oe T. Steel! Hb. Kew! Areschoug, 
Phye. extraeurop. exsicc. No. 5 

aes uy eee ‘ Laake sine Point, Boodle! Cape, Harvey! 

Geogr. Distr. Austr; 

GRATELOUPIA FILICINA ie Sea Point, Harvey, Tyson! Cape 
Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, FE. Young! Baas ! Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack.! Cape, Harvey! Kn nysna, Kraus : 

egg Distr, Atlantic. W. Indies. alae Ocean. Mediter- 
ranean. 

G. nrerociypnica J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe. 

HaMNocLoniuM LATIFRONS Endl. et Dies. Port Natal, Péppig. 

T. natatense J. Ag. Port Natal, Gray. 

GIGARTINEE. 

Cuonprus scaBiosus Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

C. pivaricatus Grev. Cape, Kunth. 

- orispus Lyngb. Table ae Ecklon. Port Alfred, W. Carr! 

r. Distr. North Atlantic. W. Indi 

“ acatHoicus Kitz. (non Setj. Cape, fide J. Agardh. 

Irma orsitosa Suhr. Cape, Drege! Harvey 

I. Aveustinz Kiitz. (non Bory). Cape, Gaudichaud, 

I. serratirouia J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! 

i s J. Ag. Seal Island, Challenger! Table Bay, 
Saas Tay "Hb. Greville, Suhr, Pappe. 

I. nancronata Harv. = I. carensts J. Ag.? Table Bay, Harvey! 
Cape, Pages) Zeyher | 

I. conpata J. Ag. ng Drege! 

Geogr. Distr. North Pacific. 

I. curvata Kiitz. Onis Pappe. 

I. cornea Kiitz. Cape Agulhas, fide Kiitzing. 

I. tammnarrorves Bory. Cape Point, Boodle! Sea Point, Boodle! 

Geogr. Distr. North and South P acific. 

I. unputata J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! 

I. gigantea Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

I. instents Endl. et Dies. (? = Gigartina sp.). Port Natal, 
Péppig. 

GIGARTINA — - Ag. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. 

Geogr. Distr. Atlan 

G. rastigiaTa J. Ag. “Robben Island, Sea Point, Cape Point, 
Boodle! Kalk Bay, E Soady Natal, Krauss. Cape, Harvey! 

Geogr. Distr. Mau 

G. vouans Ag. 9 ps, 


140 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


G. Raputa Ag. Robben Island, Boodle! Kalk Bay, Sea Poi oint, 
Boodle! Knysna, Krauss, Boodle! Ca ape, John Staremburgh! in 
Hb. Sloan. 257, fol. 167, Ecklon, R. Brown! Areschoug 
extraeurop. exsice. No. 50, Hb. Dickie! Harvey! Robertson, John 
Reeve! 

Var. Hysrrrx. Robben Island, Boodle! Cape, Hohenack.! 
Harvey | 

Var. CLATHRATA. a Island, Boodle! Cape, Hohenack. ! 

ty Be —- Australia. 

G. IATA J. =i Table Bay, fide Suhr. Sea Point, Cape 
Point, Kalk Bay, Boodle! False Bay, Challenger ! Cape Agulhas, 
‘Hohenack. | No. 6 iter ie Thunberg, Ellis! Menzies! Areschoug, 
Phye. extraeurop. exsice. No. 12, Harv rey ! John Reeve! Hb. Dickie! 
Hb. Shuttleworth ! Bute Eliot | Keliquie Brebissoniane! Ser. 2, 

188. 


. G. Burmannit J. Ag. Simon’s Bay, ee Sea Point, 
Tyson! yseksy, Phye. extraeurop. exsicc. No. 5 


. Tzepu Lam. Port Alfred, Slavin 

aa Distr. Warm Atlantic. Madibarraakth Red Sea. 

Gy NGRUS corymBosus J. Ag. Cape Point, Boodle! False 
ar Medd ! Cape, ae a ! 

. Distr. Indian 

e. GLOMERATUS J. Ag. Ca rae one Pappe. 

Geogr. Distr. Boe: Mat 

G. carensis J, Ag. Table Ashe Pi Cape Point, Boodle ! 
Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! Knysna, Boodle ! 

kelon 


eogr. Distr. W. Indies. Mauritius. 
G. vermicutaris J, Ag. Cape Town, Burchell! Gordon’s Bay, 
Kcklon. Cape, Harvey! 
eogr, Distr. Mauritius. South Pacific. 
G. ponyctapus J. Ag. Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape, Hb. Kew! 
G. pmatatus J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! Green Point, Harvey ! 
— Point, Boodle! Gordon’s Bay, Ecklon. . Cape, Drege, Brand, 
Villet, Areschoug, Phye. extraeurop. exsice. No, 46, Harvey! Hb. 
Hooker ! 
Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. 
PHYLLOPHORA DIVERSIFOLIA Suhr. Cape, Drege. 
Kasarwme caPensis J. Ag. = Eunymenta capensis Kiitz. Cape, 
Hb. Holmes 
K. erosa ek Green Point, Harvey ! 
K. reprans J. Ag. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Natal, Krauss. 
K. pentata J. Ag. Ca — Hohenack.! No, 222. Algoa 
Bay, Ecklon. Cape, Hb. pay, 
K. Harveyana J. Ag. Table Bay, Harvey! Cape Point, Buodle! 
Cape, Harvey | 


MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 141 


K. scutzopnyiia Harv. (non Kiitz.). Table Bay, Harvey! Port 
Natal, Keil ! 

K.? tusrica = Hatymenta tusrica Subr. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. 

? Hunymenra Fitirormis Kitz. Cape, Wenek ! 

Cannopnytus rastiaiata J. Ag. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! 

Geogr. Distr. Falkland Islands. 

; rata J. Ag. Batterie a ii Ecklo 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic and North Sea. West Tistte: Pacific ? 

C. piscigera J. Ag. Table Bay. Pappe! Sea Point, Boodle! 
False Bay, Villet! “Knysna, Krauss. — Gueinzius, Harvey! 
Areschoug, Phye. extraeurop. exsiec. No. 4 

Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. eines 


Dumonriace®. 

Hatosaccton RaMENTacEUM J. Ag. Cape, Chavin! I have only 
seen one specimen of this plant from the Cape, and can find no 
other — of it from there. 

', Distr. Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. 


SpyRIDIE 

Spyripia squauipa J. Ag. Port alied, Slavin ! 

Geogr. Distr. South Australia. 

3. cupressina Harv. Algoa Bay, Holub! Port Alfred, Slavin ! 
Kei Mouth, Flanagan! 

§. instents J. Ag. Port Alfred, Slavin! Port Natal, Arvauss. 

gull iets Indian Ocean 

A Harv Nat al, Krau 

Gig. re Distes raEneodghdal tropical and ‘dabavopinal seas. 


CHAMPIER. 

Cuampra compressa Harv. Kalk Bay, Boodle! hy 
Harvey! Cape Aguilas Hohenack ! Knysna, Boodle! Algoa 
Bay, Ecklon. Port Alfred, Slavin! 

Geogr. Distr. Indian Ocean. Warm Pacific. Australia. 

C. tumpricatis Ag. Robben Island, Boodle! Table Bay, 
Tyson! Sea Point, Cape Point, Boodle! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! 


ch 
Shuttleworth ! W. Ferguson! Gourlie ! Hofman: -Bang! Reliquie 
Brebissoniane ! 
RHOoDYMENIACER. 

Hymenociapia potymorpHa J. Ag. Port Alfred, Slavin ! 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. 

“gee ostusa J. Ag. Table Bay, Muysenberg, Harvey! 
Cape, Drege. 
Geogr. Distr. South Pacific. Cape Horn. Marion Island. 
Ruopymen1a Patmerta J. Ag. Algoa Bay, Heklon, 
Geogr. Distr, Atlantic. Adriatic, 


142 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


Pxocamium coccineum Lyngb. Table Bay, Wenek! Kalk Bay, 
E. Young Boodle! Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Natal, Krauss. Cape, 
Harvey! Scott Elliot ! 

taped Distr. N. Atlantic. N. Pacific. W. Indies. Australia. 
Tasman 

P. riaipum Bory. Muysenberg, Harvey! Cape, R. Trimen! Hb. 
Kew! 

P. ctomeratum J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Kew! Scott Elliot ! 

P. suprasticiatum Kiitz. oe Jide Kiitzing. 

P. costatum J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tastaenia, Pagel Zealand. 

P. Merrensi Ee: Cape, Hb. 

Geogr. Distr. see panera 

_P. CORALLORHI Ag. Robben Island, 7'yson! Cape Point, 
Boodle! F. Towak tae Agulhas, Hohenack. | No. 196. Knysna, 
Boodle! Cape Recife, Bowerbank! Port Alfred, Carr! Slavin! 
Kei Mouth, Flanagan! Natal, Krauss. Cape, Ecklon! Gueinzius ! 
Lind, Ber! | Wenek ! Hohenack: ! No. 596. 

| gh J.Ag. Simon’s Bay, R. Brown! Cape Recife, 
Lowatank Cape, “Hb. Ro ! 

um J. Ag. Table Bay, gender Sea Point, Tyson ! 
Kalk ay Pasi Booilsl Be Young! Camps Bay, Ecklon. Cape, 
Agulhas, Hohonack. ! No. 597. Natal, = po Cape, Burchell, 
Harvey ! 

P. procerum Suhr, Cape, jide Bory. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. 
Natal, Krauss, 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tasmania. _ 

P, mempranaceum Suhr. Cape, Suhr, Freycinet. 

Desi tripinnata J. Ag. Natal, Krauss! No.321. St. Sebastian 
Bay, Miss Borcherds ! 

D. Hornemannt J. Ag. False Bay, Miss McMillan! Cape 
Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 898. Algoa Bay, Ecklon, peated Port 
Alfred, Slavin! Carr}! Port Natal, Gueinzius derson 

Ocuropes capensis J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Orduais n. 

Ruopornytus capensis Kiitz. Cape, Hb. Hofman-Bang, Suhr, 
Aomaini,. Pappe. 

SQuaMARIACE. 
ose SSONELIA sQuAMARIA Dene. Natal, Krauss, Gueinzius ! 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic (Europe). Mediterranean 

P. repuicata Kiitz. Natal, Gueinzius. 

P. masor Kiitz. Port Natal, Gueinzius. 

P. caunescens Kiitz, Natal, Gueinzius, Agardh regards these 
three species of Kiitzing as doubtful. 


HiLDENBRANDTIACE®, 


HicpEnBRANDTIA RosEA Kiitz. Sea Point, Boodle ! 
Geogr. Distr. Shores of Northern Eur urope. 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 148 


SPH#ROCOCCOIDES. 
'T yLEIOPHORA Becxert J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Holmes! Port Alfred, 
Slavin ! 
Pracenocarpus onicacantuus Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 
P. rristicaum J. Ag. Port Alfred, W. Carr! 
P. Lasmuarprern J. Ag. Port ce Slavin! Cape, Hb. Dickie! 
Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tasm ew Zealand 
P. rortuosus Endl. et Dies. Cape Agalbas, Hohenack.! No. 247. 
Port Natal, Péppig. Cape, Hohenack.! No. 4 
Dicurenta arrisis J. Ag. Robben aod, Kalk Bay, Cape 
Point, Boodle! Cape, Hb. Dickie! Scott Elliot 
wee apettata J. Ag. Table Bay, Pappe! ie ae? Bopdls! 
Sea P int, Tyson! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! Nos. 56 
Cape, iachoug, Alg. extraeurop. exsice. No, 39; Harvey! Hi. "Dick! 
D. FRAGILIS rh ke, Robben Island, Boodle! Table Bay, Pappe! 
. 245. 


Knysna, Krauss. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Port Alfred, Slavin ! Cape, 
Gaudichaud, mobos ~ Phye. extraeurop. exsicc. No. 14; Harvey ! 
Reeve! Hb, Dicki 
Gracmarra mutipartita J. Ag. Natal, Kra 
Geogr. Distr. Warmer Atlantic paiitope ps Ritotitay: Indian 
Ocean. W. Indies. New Zealand 
conrervowEs J. Ag. Cape, scene ark Hb. Dickie ! 
Geogr. Distr. Throughout all se 
Sarcopra capensis J. Ag. Cape, Holub | Hb. Kew! 
CanuwLepHaris Fimpriata J. Ag. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! 
No. 398. (This specimen is labelled C. ornata Kiitz., but the 
species does not hold go ood, being merely a form of C. Jimbriata 
J. Ae.) Algoa Bay, Ecklon, Burchell! Port Alfred, Carr! Slavin! 
Cape, Gaudichaud, Zeyher | Trimen! Hb. Wenek! Kitching ! 
eringia miraBitis J. Ag. Robben Island, Boodle! ‘Table 
Bay, Gordon’s Bay, Ecklon. Sea Point, Harvey! Cape Point, 
‘yson! Camps Bay, Reynolds! Knysna, Krauss, Boodle! Algoa 
Bays Holub! Port Alfred, ens ! ue am Gaudichaud, Drege! Hb. 
! 


DELESSERIEX. 
Hoxmesra capensis J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Holmes ! 
Osetia neprans Crn. Cape Point, Boodle! Cape, Hb. 


gos Distr. North Atlantic. Mediterranean. 

N. piarycarpum J. Ag. Robben Island, Boodle! Table Bay, 
Harvey! Cape Point, Boodle! Green Point, Harvey! Camps 
Bay, Reynolds! Tyson! Cape a oe paar maa No. 598. 
Knysna, Krauss. Algoa “oe Holub! Cape, Areschoug, Phye 


144 MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


N. uyputatum Kiitz. Simon’s Bay, Challenger ! 

N. rissum Grev. Table et Boodle! Camps Bay, Reynolds ! 
Knysna, Krauss. Cape, Harv 

N. Mei mag Harv. Table Bays Harvey, Pappe! Cape, Harvey ! 
Alb, Dickie 

N. carpense Hary. Table Bay, Harvey ! 

N. uncrnatum J. Ag. Cape, Ecklon. Kei Mouth, Flanagan ! 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. New Zealand. 

N. acrospermum J. Ag. Cape, Harvey, Hb. Suhr, Hb, Areschoug. 

N. prynatiripum Suhr. Algoa Bay, Ecklon, 

N. serratum Suhr. Cape, fide Suhr. - 

N. macunatum Sond. Cape, Hb. Binder, on Buctophora Eckloni. 

Nevrociossum Brinpertanum Kiitz. Hout Bay, Harvey! Camps 
Bay, Reynolds! Cape Agulhas, Token 

sew Laciniata Harv. Cape, Harvey! 

RYOCARPA PROLIFERA Grey. Robben Island, Boodle! Table 

By Beh Point, Harvey ! Cape Point, Boodle ! Ca ape, Hornemann, 
Areschoug, Alg. extraeurop. exsice. No. 34; Reeve! 

Geogr. Distr. Southern seas. 

ELESSERIA IMBRIcATA Aresch. Port Alfred, J. Slavin! This 
specimen differs slightly from the typical D. imbricata Aresch., but 
not sufficiently to form a new species. 

ogr. Distr. Australia 
D. oviroi Kiitz. Canes Suhr. 
D. ruscrror1a Lamour. Sea Point, Tyson! Natal, Krauss, 
Cape, Harvey 
Geogr. Distr. N. Atlantic. Mediterranean. W. Australia. 
=e Ope 
HeuminrHora prvaricarta J, Cape, Hb. Dicki. 

oe seg Atlantic aro and. retrad W. Indies. 

Mediter: Australia 
sees INAIA FURCELLATA Bivon. Cape Point, Ape 
Geogr. Distr, racioprt (Europe and America). W. Indies. 
Mediterranean. Aust 
S. sALICORNIOIDES i. ‘ . Port Se Gueinzius, 
URA UMBELLATA Lam. tal vide ates, 
Geogr. Distr, Warm A Sey gor 
G. osrusata Lam. Port Eliz beth, oe ! Algoa Bay, 
Dobsiiieg t Port Natal, racic en us | 
eogr. Distr. Warm A Atlan 


(To be continued.) 


145 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A., anp Wm. R. Linton, M.A. 


Tue plants to which the following notes refer were mainly 
gathered between 1889 and 1891, parts of Aberdeenshire, Forfar- 


m though they may appear 
numerous, do not embrace all that we have collected of doubtful 


Lindeberg for determination. In a few cases a name occurred to 
us for some of Mr. Hanbury’s numerous doubtful plants, and at his 
request we incorporate in our paper some of these identifications 
which appear to extend the distribution of the species. 

It remains to add that the few species and varieties here pub- 
lished for the first time are not described in any case by us 
collectively, but by one or other of us se arately ; and for this 
reason the name of the actual author is always appended to the 
n. Sp. or noy. var. 

We add the usual * to denote new county or v.-c. records, pre- 


H. graniticolum, n.sp. A plant gathered in Corrie Etchachan, 
under Ben Muich Dhui, §. Aberdeen, in 1884, and again in 1889, 
belonging to the alpinum section, does not agree with any named 
species. It may possibly coincide with Prof. Babington’s H. 


melanocephalum Tausch., v. insigne, but the description of this in 


lentum Backh., H. alpinum Backh., and H. eximium y. tenellum 


146 BRITISH -HAWKWEEDS, 


setose, with many patent black-based hairs; root-leaves ovate- 


spathulate, with a few coarse teeth in the lower half, and cuneate 


e tips; styles nearly pure 
rosette at the base, the primordial and outer being coriaceous, and 
more or less glabrous on the surface. The stem stands six inches 
clear of the rosette in well-grown wild specimens. The heads, by 
their shape, recall H. globosum Backh. : 
A. gracilentum Backh. Two or three miles N. of Ben Lawers, 


» nigrescens Backh., Hanbury. We 
gathered this on Craig Caillich, and on the Gam Chreag rocks, 
r Killin; in Coire Ardran, near Crianlarich; on Ben Lawers, 
above Loch-na-Chait, and on the Glen Lyon side of Ben Lawers; 
all in Mid-Perth. 
H. Marshalli Linton. Besides the original station, near Loch 
idea : 


hairy plant, but differing in no essential character. This was 
thered in 1887, and laid in with forms of H. nigrescens. A 
niyrescens-like plant with deep yellow flowers, gathered on the Glen 
yon side of Meall Ghaordie, *Mid-Perth, hag eventually been 


H, Mayrshalli Linton, var. cremnanthes F. J. Hanbury. Here 
we place a plant gathered as a peculiar form of H. nigrescens in 
1889 at the Dhuloch, 8. Aberdeen, which differed from H. Mar- 
shalli chiefly in the very dark style and leaf-serration. Cultivation 
of this has produced a very similar plant to var. cremnanthes. 
A. chrysanthum var. microcephalum Backh. Rocks, Glen Lyon 
side of Ben Lawers range, *Mid-Perth. 
- sinuans F. J, Hanbury. We add three more stations for 


ers range. 
H, centripetale F. J. Hanbury. Rather plentiful along the Mid- 
law Burn, above the Grey Mare’s Tail; Carrifron; and Selcoth 


t main : 
H. submurorum Lindeb. Glen Doll, *Forfar ; and rocky bed of 
the Alls Dubh Galair, Glen Lochay, *Mid-Perth. Among the 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 147 


Boswell plants we found this species from ‘ Breadalbane, Perth, 
1851, gathered by Dr. Boswell.” We consider a plant gathered by 
the Rev. H. E. Fox on Helvellyn, in August, 1890, and sent to the 
Bot. Exch. Club, to be this species. Mr. Hanbury has specimens 
of the same plant gathered by Mr. Fox on Dollywaggon Pike, Lake 
District. 

. clovense, n.sp. A handsome and uniformly distinct spe- 
cies, fairly abundant in the Clova district, at elevations between 
500 ft. and about 2000 ft.; which would be associated with H. 
Schmiatii or H. murvrum, if judged by its leaves alone, but has the 
involucre of the nigrescens section. 1t has been gathered in several 
spots in the Clova Valley, in Glen Doll, in Glen Fiagh, along the 
Unich Water, and on Craig Maskeldie; also by the Rev. E. 5. 
Marshall on Craig Rennet formerly, and last year in Glen Canness, 
Forfar, and at Cairnwell, E. Perth; also previously in Glens Fiagh 
and Canness, Forfar, by Mr. F. J. Hanbury, for whom it was 
named by Mr. Backhouse on the one occasion H. Schmidtii, var., 

I ical.” We give as another 


FH. clovense Linton. Stem 8-16 in. high, usually blotched with 
purple and subglabrous below, floccose above, more ‘often leafless 
and not much branched, few-flowered. Leaves deltoid-ovate to 


petiole, dentate or entire ; heads 14-14 in. diam., broadly ovoid, 
in a lax irregular corymb; the branches of a luxuriant plant 
spreading, few-flowered; peduncles floceose and glandular, not 
hairy, straight or curved; involucre dark green (usually drying 
nearly black), velvety with black simple and many glandular hairs; 
phyllaries broad below, attenuate, acute, moderately floccose near 
the base, porrect in bud; 
glabrous at the tip; styles usually pure yellow, sometimes with a 
greenish tinge. 

H. callistophyllum F, J. Hanbury. We have this from Glen 

L 2 


148 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


Doll, *Forfar, and the Midlaw Burn, Moffat, *Dumfriesshire ; but 
in both localities the species appears to have been exceedingly 
scarce. 

- anglicum Fr., var. longibracteatum F. J. Hanbury. We have 
had this sent us by Mr. P. Ewing, collected in the lower part of 


poor specimens on rocks by the railway, Strome Ferry, *W. Ross, 
in 1888, and by cultivation of a root eventually proved it to be this 
species. 


e 
doubtingly suspected to have their place here, which grew near the 
Clunie at Braemar. Cultivation (in the garden at Shirley) has been 


lemon-yellow flowers, which are greater in diameter by 4 in. or so. 
e phyllaries are proportionately larger. Dr. Lindeberg, on 
seeing mature specimens, sent him by Mr. Hanbury, thought the 
plant referable to H. vogesiacum rather than H. Schmidtii. Later 

e named a very immature specimen (gathered in May!) “ forma 
H, Schmidtii.” The living plant is really a good deal off H. 
Schmidtii, in the direction of H. Oreades Fr., but the differences do 
not work out well on paper. 

- buylossoides Arvet-Touvet. Grassy banks about Uig, and the 
Vaternish Cliffs, Skye; woods south of Braemar, banks of R. Slug- 
gan, and rocky banks by the Linn of Dee, S. Aberdeen; all these 
with the ligules erect, unopened, and of a greenish yellow colour; 
also Grey Mare’s Tail, and Selcoth Burn, and Black’s Hope, in the 
watershed of Moffat Water, *Dumfriesshire; in Glen Lyon an 

i e : irkshire, and 


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with the ligules somewhat recurved, and partly but not perfectly 
opened. In reference to Mr, Hanbury’s remarks on H, onosmoides 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 149 


Fr. in this Journal (1892, 181, 182), we may observe that we at 
first made out the Braemar plant to be 1. onosmoides Fr. ourselves ; 


Fr., and affirmed the other (from 
the Linn of Dee) to be another species which he knew, but had not 
named. Later on we became acquainted with the description of 
Mons. Arvet-Touvet’s plant, and sent specimens from Skye, Brae- 


ms 
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We ha Arvet-Touvet’s distinct opinion in reply that our plan 

were his buglossoides, and not H. onosmoides Fr. As all our gatherings 
agree well wi Arvet-Touvet’s description, and do not fit 
equally well Fries’ description or Lindeberg’s specimens of H. onos- 
moides, we adopt M. Arvet-Touvet’s name, Ce) 
regard this widely dispersed plant of ours as a different species to 
H. onosmoides F tected among Mr. Hanbury’s numerous 


doubtful plants a rather poor specimen 0 ¢ 
Minhiagh, Innishowen, N. Ireland, collected by Mr. H. C. 


a plant rather like our shadegrown specimens of H. buglossoides from 
the Yarrow, near Selkirk, which he names H, saxifragum Fr. var. 
pseudonosmoides, n. subsp. This is not at all identical with our 
series of Moffat plants, but it shows that there is resemblance 


to be very seare 


a possible product of H. Oreades and this species, A very different 
proad-leaved form, a striking-looking plant, comes from rocks near 
Llyn Ogwen, Carnarvon ; Mr. Hanbury has found a similar plant 
to this by the R. Elan, Radnor. 

(To be continued.) 


150 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 
: COMPILED BY 
Wituum A. Crarke, F.L.S, 
(Continued from p. 88.) 


of which he gives a more accurate drawing: ‘“ accuratiorem quam 


’ 


has it in his herbarium “a D, Stephens e Cornubia missum” 
( 


Smyrnium Olusatrum L. Sp. Pl. 262 (1758). 1562. “Our 
Alexander groweth . . . in T] 
a certayn Iade betwene the far parte of Sommerset shere & Wales.” 
—Tuin. ii. 68, 

Bupleurum rotundifolium [,. Sp. Pl. 236 (1753). 1568. 
‘* In Somersetshire betwene Summerton and Marlock ”’ (Martock). 
—Turn. iii. 56. 

- aristatum Bartl. in Bartl. & Wendl. Beitr. ii. 89 (1825). 
1812. Found in Devonshire by the Rey. Aaron Neck, and sent to 
Sowerby Jan. 19, 1802 (HE. B. 2468), and note on original drawing 
for same. 


n Essex,” &.—R. C. C. App. i. 8. This may be the 
‘Bupleurum minimum nondum descriptum floribus luteis’ of How 
(Phyt. 18, 1650), « found in Surrey.”’ 

B. faleatum L. Sp. Pl. 237 (1753). 1834. Found by Mr. 
Thomas Corder in 1831, ‘“‘at Norton Heath, between Chelmsford 
3. 2768 


Trinia vulgaris DC. Prod. iy. 103 (1830). 1570. « Bristoiw 

in Anglia, ad rupem Vincentii, nobis primum magna copia repertam.”’ 
—Lob. Ady. 881. 
_ Apium graveolens L. Sp. Pl. 264 (1753). 1548. “Groweth 
in watery places and also in gardines.”—Turn. Names, C viij. 
‘* Growes wilde abundantly upon the bankes in the salt marshes of 
Kent and Essex.”—Ger. em. 1014, 

A. nodiflorum Reichb. f. Ic, F, Germ. xxi, 10 (1867). 1632. 
‘*Sium umbellatum repens.’’—Johns. Kent, 27. “Almost in every 
watery place about London.”"—Ger. em. 25 ‘ 

A. inundatum Reichb. f. Ie. Fl. Germ. xxi. 9 (1867). 1641. 
“‘Sium pusillum foliis yariis nondum descriptum, in aquosis.’’— 
Johns. Sees Bot. pars alt. 33, “In Surrey near Purbright.”"— 


Cicuta virosa L, Sp. Pl. 255 (1758). 1633. “Found by Mr. 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, 151 


Goodyer in the ponds about Moore Parke; and by M. George 
Bowles in the ditches about Ellesmere [Salop], and in divers 
ponds in Flint-shire.’”"—Ger. em. 2 

Carum verticillatum Koch in Nov. Act. Nat. stud xii. 122 
(1824). 1732. Near Ayr, in Scotland. Mr. W. Hous —Mar 
tyn’s Tournefort, 154. 

C. segetum Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. i. 892 (1867). 1629. 
‘*Sium terrestre.’ Te Kent, 8. First observed by John 


Goodyer, who says (Ger. 1018), “I took the description of this 
herb the yere 1620, but iaeesd it long afore.” 
Bulbocastanum Koch in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 121 


C. 
(1824). 1841. Found ae Rev. W. H. Coleman a ea “ near 
i he Hinton in Cambridgeshire.”"—E. B. Su 

Sison Amomum Sp. Pl. ane ree 1548. ‘* Besyde 
Shene” ‘(Middx.). —Turn. Na ames, G, ilj, 

um latifolium L. Sp. Pl. asi ‘atts. i507. (fdas eee 
and anal sp grounds.” — Ger. ‘‘By Redding.”’ 
as Bhghs 114 (1650). 

S. erectum Huds. i. 103 (1762). 1633. ‘‘ This I first found 
in the sirasiae of M. Bobers Lene going betweene Redriffe and 
Deptford.””—Johnson er.'@ 

igopodium ‘Podagra aria ees Sp. Pl. 265 (1753). sa 
‘‘Groweth of it selfe in gardens ae t setting or sowing.’ 
Ger. 

ella ‘Saxifra raga L. Sp. Pl. 163 (1753). 1568. 
i: foe commonlye in Englazide.’’—Turn. i. iL. 
major Huds. i. 110 (1762). 1660. ‘In the woods about 
S. Geor rge Hatley, and many other woods on the borders of Cam- 
bridgeshire towards Bedfordshire.”’—R. C. C. 118. 

Con opodium denudatum Koch in Nov. Ac ad. Nat. Cur 
119 (1824). 1548. ‘‘Groweth plentuouslye in vp ge 
beside Morpeth.”-—Turn. “3 ames, B i, back. 


rrhis odorata Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. Si, 107 :( A772). -UETT. 
*f re Air in the low ee [of pecwenes , in prenanis, and waste 
places, but always near houses.’”’—Lightf. Fl. Scot. 


Cherophyllum temulum L. Sp. Pl. 258 (4758). 1633. 
‘Found in June and July almost in everie hedge.’’—Ger. em. 1037. 

Scandix ~besters L. Sp. Pl. 256 (1753). 1562. ‘‘ Groweth in 
ye corne. rasa ; 

nthris Pulnalh Pers. Syn. i. 820 (1805). 1632. Hamp- 

stead Heath. pbs hee {‘ Matrhie sylvestris nova Aiqui- 
colorum 

A. sylv vestris Hoffm. Umb. 40 (1814). 1548. ‘ Myrrhis 
called in Cambrygeshyre casshes . . . groweth in hedges in every 
countrey.’’—Turn. Names, E v, 

Seseli Libanotis Koch in pe Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 111 (1824). 
1690. te Gogmagog Hills in Cambridgeshire.’’—Ray, Syn. i. 70. 

Foeniculum vulgare Mill. Dict. (1768). 1677. ‘By the 
eke’ in Cornwal towards the lands end Segre and ‘ Pe- 
vensey Marsh in Sussex and elsewhere.”—Ray, omy ad. 

Crithmum maritimum L. Sp. Pl. 246 *(4758}, 1548. 


152 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLAN‘t's, 


‘‘Groweth much in rockes and cliffes beside Dover.” — Turn. 
Names, C y, back. 

CGfnanthe fistulosa L. Sp. Pl. 254 (1753). 1597. «Neere 
the river of Thames or Tems about the Bishop of Londons house 
at Fulham.”—Ger, 902. 

pimpinelloides L. Sp. Pl. 255 (1758). 19844, ‘¢ Dey 
meadow near Forthampton, Gloucestershire, Mr. Edwin Lees.” — 
N. iv 


kay, 4, 
CE. peucedanifolia Pollich, Hist. Pl. Palat. i. 289 (1776). 
1794, “Banks of the Isis beyond Ifley.”—Sibth. Fl. Oxon, 98. 
Gs. Lachenalii Gmel. FI. Bad. i) 678 (1805). 1690. “In 
fossis . . . in parochia Quaplod agri Lincolniensis non procul ab 
ppido Spalding.”—Ray, Syn. i. 241, 

- Crocata L. Sp. Pl. 254 (1753). 1548. “Groweth muche 
by the Temmes syde about Shene.”—Turn. ames, H iiij, back. 

- Phellandrium Lam. Fl. Fr, iii, 439 (1778). 1597. «In 
most places of England: it groweth very plentifully in the ditches 
by a causey as you go from Redreffe to Detforde neere London.’ — 
Ger. 905. 


GE. fluviatilis Coleman in Ann. N. H. xiii. 188 (1844). 1724, 
“In rivulo inter Woodstock et celebrem illum pontem Ducis 
Marlborugii juxta Blenheim.” —Dill. in Ray, Syn. iii. 216. “In 
Hertfordshire, Rev. W. H. Coleman.” —Bab. Man. ed. 1, 181 (1843). 

ASthusa Cynapium L. Sp. Pl. 256 (1758). 1597, “ Among 
stones rubbish . . . almost everywhere.” —Ger. 905. 

Siler trilobum Crantz, Stirp. Austr. 186, fase. iii. 62 (1767). 

C 


87 t 6c 
Cambridgeshire, June, 1867,”—J, CG. Melvill in Journ. Bot. 1871, 
211, 


Silaus pratensis Bess. ap. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. vi. 36. 
1568. ‘In Englande there is a wilde kinde of Daucus with longe 
smal leaves which groweth commonlye in ranke medowes that our 
countremen call Saxifrage.”’—Turn, iii, 67. 

eum Athamanticum J acq. Austr. iv. 2, 308 (1776). 1548. 
“T never sawe thys herbe in Englande Savynge once at saynte 
Oswarldes ”’ [St. Oswald, in Lee, near Hexham} .—Turn. Nam 8, 
“ Groweth in the bisshoprik of Durram in wild mores called 
felles.”—Turn. ii. 57 (1562). 

Ligusticum scoticum lL. Sp. Pl. 250 (1753). 1684, “Im. 
peratorie affinis umbellifera Maritima Scotiz.”—Sibbald, Scotia, 
i. 82. “On a certain sandy & stony hill six miles from Edinburgh 
towards Queensferry in Scotland.”—Ray, Fascic. 13 (16 

Selinum Carvifolia L. on 6d, 2% . 
Found by Rev. William Fowler in July, 1880, near Broughton 
Woods, N. Lincolnshire.—Report of Bot. Ree. Club (1881), and 
Journ. Bot. 1882, pp. 98, 129, 

Angelica sylvestris L. Sp. Pl. 251 (1758). 1568. «“Groweth 
here in the lowe woodes and by the water sydes.”—Turn. iii. 6. 

(To be continued.) 


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153 


SHORT NOTES. 
ERMAPHRODITE Hazets.—I have noticed in this neighbourhood 


s 

the three plants a fairly large proportion of the male catkins, 

perhaps about a quarter, exhibited the ‘wba desist growth; the 
a 


number of style-bearing florets on a catkin varying Fro 00 
three to fifteen or more. styles occurred mostly among the 
wer have seen the hazel quoted as an example 


stigmas to receive it; and that as long as mature stigmas remain, 
there remains also some pollen to fertilise them.— NEWDIGATE. 

[See Journ. rg 1889, 193, for note on another somewhat similar 
form. Specime s of both are in the British Museum Herbarium.— 


Lonicera CapriroLium 1x WEsT Ken v.—Two or three years ago 
I maak, I found Lonicera Caprifolium growing in the neighbour- 
hood of Halling, near Maidstone, but it was too early in the year to say 
for certain. Last week, however, I certified it. It is not, I suppose, 
native, but in this station it has every appearance of one, growing 


on top of a steep chalky bank on the rough edge of a large 
thicket of hazel, &c., from habitations. In t hbour- 
hood Helleborus fetidus and Aquilegia vulgaris grow in consid l 


quantity, both, I think, gro native. The Lonicera may be 
bird-sown, but were it not for the great doubt which appears to 
exist as to its nativity in Britain, I should not for an instant have 
tae a station.— Wottey Don. 

F Kent Lavoie various causes, the Sooner of this 
work, evjeeled a good many years ago, has been postpon The 
available materials are no wy bawaver, ‘nearly all incorporated and 
we hope to see them in pits at no distant date. Owing to the 
great advance made recently in the euhaibags of critical forms, we 
need, and earnestly invite, the assistance of all botanists who may 
visit the county during the present season, in order that the 

Oo 


ms may be as accurate and 

complete as possi Our own occupations, and the fact of our 
being non-resident nt the county, make this co-operation the more 
necessary and valuable. The recgeds oi i Rosa, Rubus, 
a be 8 groups especially 


indifferent material is useless. The Sevenoaks district may be 
expected to promise many brambles of interest; and the marshes 
of Sheppey and Thanet, as well as the wealden district between 
Cranbrook and Romney Marsh, should repay careful search. The 


154 HANDBOOK OF THE IRIDEA, 


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with extinction by greedy collectors. — Frepericxk J. Hansury; 
Epwarp 8S. Marsuatz. 

Hieractum Friesn Htn. var. prosum.—I suggest this as a name 
for the variety described by me under H. Friesii var. hirsutwn 
(Journ. Bot, 1892, p. 869), and I regret that I overlooked the fact 
of the latter varietal name having already been employed by Hart- 
mann for a different plant.—Frepericx J. Hanpury, 


NOTICES OF BOOKS, 
Handbook of the Iridea, By J. G. Baker. London: George 
Bell & Sons. 1892. 8vo, pp. xii. 247. Price 7s. 6d. 


and pen, will not Mr. Baker give us a monograph or handbook of 
the Scitaminea, to supersede the somewhat incomplete and unwieldy 
revision of Horaninow ? 

The arrangement in tribes and genera adopted in the work 
before us is practically identical with that followed in Bentham and 
Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. Tri ée I., Morea, contains the large 


Segments of the perianth. In separating Morea from Iris the author 
olows Bentham, and makes geographical distribution a factor, Iris 


from Tigridia, on account of its campanulate perianth, the sub- 
stitution of Sweet’s name Herbertia for Bentham’s Alophia 
former claiming priority, while the small Cape genus, Hexaglottis, 
is no longer stigmatised as a ‘genus anomalum.” 

ribe IL., Sisyrinchiea, differs from the first in having the style- 
branches alternating with the anthers. Ii is subdivided into four sub- 
tribes :—the Crrocee, with a bulb or corm, and one-flowered spathes; 


HANDBOOK OF THE IRIDEX, 155 


the American Cipuree, with a similar rootstock, but the perianth- 
tube obsolete, and usually more than one flower to the spathe ; and 


th rm 
the second being distinguished from the first by its distinct 
perianth-tube. The genus Keitia, queried by Bentham, which was 
founded by Regel on a species from Natal, is now identified with 
Eleutherine plicata Herb. 

The third tribe, Bins with spicate, non-fugitive flowers agape | 
in each spathe, corresponds exactly with that of Bentham 
includes Gama hid Tes and their ailian, with a regular en Pe 
and simple style-branches, the Watsonia group with unilateral 
stamens and bifid style-branches, Acidanthera, Tritonia, &c., with a 
subregular periauth-limb, and the irregular Gladiolus group. It 
will thus be seen that Mr. Baker has abandoned the serial arrange- 
ment of his Systema Pe eee which preceded that of the Genera 
Plantarum. He then adopted three series—Izxiee, Irideea, and 
Gladiolee, the first characterised by a regular perianth with 
similar inner and outer whorls and equilateral stamens, including 
therefore Jvia and its near allies and the crocuses, and thus scarcely 
comparable with the present tribe of the same name. 

ax, who elaborated the Iridacee for Engler and Prantl’s 
Pflanzenfamilien in 1887, has an arrangement very like that of 
Bentham; of his three sections, Ixioidee corresponds exac ws to Izviee, 
while the sub-tribe Crocee is separa as a dis section, 
Ge ocoidee; the yaaa of Sisyrinchiea, and the Moreee, a united 
n a third, [ridoi 

n the “ile ey dewdbook the same plan is followed as in those 
dontithis with the Fern Allies, Amaryllidea, and ethene the 
similarity extending to the convenient size and neat green binding 
of the three volumes. Unfortunately we may push the compariso 
further. Mr. Baker i rapid ove 


have made a pie ifr oe when reviewing his Handbook 
of Bromeliaceea. The species of Marica and rapes avait described 
by Martens and Galeotts (Bull. Acad. Roy. Brux. x.) from specimens 
collected by the latter in Mexico, are not fnelatied though cited by 
Hemsley in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, where it is stated that 
the hg Ar (S. affine) is referred to iridifolium (presumably by 
M self) in the a Herbarium. There are some names 


oO 

look for citations of M. Gandoger’s innumerable names—life is too 
short and space too valuable. gain, it wo e well in cases 
where “the name of a figure is corrected, espec cially in so well 
known and universally used book as the Botanical Magazine, to say 
exactly what the deae mg represent. Thus we have on page 38, 
* Tris aphylla L. n t. Bag,” and on the next, “ J. lurida Ait., 

Bot. Mag. t. 986, non 699 ”; but what then are these Bot t. Mag. 
figures? There are a few mistakes in numbers*in the references, 


156 THE CHARACEX OF AMERICA.— SET OF BRITISH RUBI, 


and I. Watii, a Species dedicated to the collector, Dr. Watt, should 
have two ts; it is correctly written in the index. 
Finally, it would have been more useful if more numbers had 

been quoted, especially in the case of the less-known species. 

ow, or have heard, that citation of numbers panders to laziness; 
but all the same, if one has not an authoritative specimen, it does con- 
siderably help out a description, especially if the latter is not very full 
or is provokingly like its neighbours. Ae Bewors. 


The Characee of America. Part li. Fascicle 1. By Dr. T. F. 
Auten. 8vo. New York, [1893] not dated. Price 1 dollar. 

In the second part of this work Dr. Allen proposes to give 
descriptions and illustrations of all the American species. The 
present number includes a part of the Monarthrodactylous section 
of Nitella, eight species being described, of which four are new— 
N. obtusa, N. ntana, N, Blankinshipii, and N. missouriensis, all 
closely allied to \V. opaca. In adddition to eight lithographed 
plates with magnified representations of parts of the various species, 


others are taken from badly preserved specimens. It is to 

regretted that the plates are not numbered so that they can be 

referred to, and that the letterpress is disfigured by a large number 
rs 


of printer’s errors, H. & J. Grovss. 


Set of British Rubi. Fase. 2, Nos. 26-50. Prepared by the Revs. 
E. F. & W. R. Linton, R. P. Murray, and W. Moyze Rogers. 
Tus second fasciculus includes several of the commonest and 
most widely-distributed British forms, which are well known to all 

students of th 


ero. A 

types are dumnoniensis of Babington, Mercicus of Bagnall, pyramidalis 

of Kaltenbach, cognatus of N. KE. Brown, mutabilis of Genevier, 

Lejeunii of Weihe & Nees, and aryentatus and devexiramus of P. J, 

Mueller. British botanists will be very glad to have placed before 

them a specimen of the true carpinifolius of Weihe and Nees, for 
i thei i 


ch 
diversely. The Specimens are carefully selected and well-dried, 
and m ken as a model of what is needed by those who 
collect for the exchange clubs, Along with this set is distributed 
to each subscriber a copy of the Synopsis by the Rev. W. Moyle 
i in this Journal. In thi 


i 
has found its way into the hands of our botanists, It would have 
added materially to the value of the Synopsis if more synonymy 


THE STRUCTURE OF WHEAT. 157 


had been given. It is often difficult or impossible to tell in what 
relation the names here used for the first time as applied to British 


which is used by Focke, has many years’ priority over rusticanus ; 
and horridus of C. F. Schultz, “tally described in 1819 (Fl. Starg. 
ene 3 30), has many years’ Boe over dumetorum ferox, The 
metorum as used by Weihe & Nees is intended to cover 
ocrylifolins, as well as ou dumetorum, A WS 


The Structure of Wheat : shown in a series of Photo-micrographs, with 
explanatory remarks. y Rovert H, Dunnam. ondon : 
unham, Mark Lane. 1892. Pp. 26, and 21 photo- 

lenin 8vo. 

Terr are some admirable and instructive photographs in this 
volume, though they are not bag equally good. They are chiefly 
devoted to the flower and fruit, but two deal with the stem, and 
one of these i is very good, seit the structures through the solid 
portion of a node. The details of the flower do not lend them- 
selves to the production of satisfactory photo-micrographs, but the 
sections : s grain are valuable. The p ena of the gluten- 


containin orem 17 and 18), which form the outer series 
of the cane {v3 the seed, are unhappily weatoraiee as being an 
inner skin of the grain. It must however be said that a careful 


investigation of the pipes will supply an accurate idea of the 
structure and parts of the grai 
It is to be regretted that Mr. Depa, in issuing his original 
illustrations, did not obtain the help of some one acquainted with 
histological botany. He would have avoided some incorrect inter- 


n 

sperm,” he says, ‘ consists of gluten-walls and starch, and the 
ee is arranged in a fine network, which extends to the centre of 
the berry, forming, with the starch, the inside of the wheat berry,’’ 
The reader will meet with many novel notions in the book, such as, 
to give a single example :—‘‘ The hairs of the beard are hollow. 
These hollow hairs are, in effect, conduits, of which it is the function 
to draw off the su uperfluous moisture that would otherwise cause 
ibrar fermentation. On the other hand, it is the proper func- 

tion of this moisture to convey to the kernel its mineral and gaseous 
food. Another duty of the beard is connected with the earliest life 
of the plant, for when the seed is first sown, these hair ducts suck up 
the moisture necessary for the process ae germination.” 

Wc, 


158 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Annals uf ratte ios — A. C. Seward, ‘ The Genus Mye- 
loxylon’ (2 pl tes). — D. H. Seo tt & G. Brebner, ‘The Secondary 


‘Cambial Developme nt in Equisetum’ (1 plate). —J. R. Green, 
: ‘ Vegetable Ferments.’ — E, Overton, ‘ Reduction of ming ah 
ids. : 


dnnals Scottish Nat. Hist. on hy Bennett, ‘ Records of 
Scottish Plants for 1892." M. Hol mes, ‘ Occurrence of seieelia 
varia in Scotland’ (1 tab.). — J. Roy, Scottish Desmidie 
Bot. Centralblatt. (No. 14).—H. Schenck, « aber THinscbliessen 
von grésseren Schmitten zur Herstellung’ v Demonstratiens- 
Priparaten,’ — (Nos. 15-17). M. "Britzelmayr, ‘Materialen zur 
mn,” 


Botanical Rakhi (Tokio : Feb.). — B. Yatabe, Senecio Bon- 
ninsime, sp.n 

Bot. Notiser (haft. 2). — K. Bohlin, ‘Suérlger fran Pite Lapp- 
mark.’ — N, vedelius, ‘ Nigra lakttagelser angiende fréna hos 
de svenska Juncus-arterna,’ — G. A. Fréman, ‘Om slin gringen hos 
Solanum Dulcamara.’—O, Ju el, ‘Om nigra Eoucceaisks 1 Uredineer.’ 
—A. Pihl, ‘Ofversigt af de svenska perio be af sligtet Batrachium.’ 

Bot. Zeitung (pts. 8 & 4: April 1).—G. de Lagerheim, ‘ Rhodo- 
chytrium, nov. gen., eine Uebergansform von den Protococcaceen 
zu den. Chytridiaceen.’ — M. Bi lisgen, ‘ Ueber einige Higenschaften 
der Keimlinge parasitischer Pilze 

Bull. Soc. Bot. France (xxix, Sess. extraord. en Algérie), — 
Rapports sur les excursions de la Soe iété, 

ull. Torrey Bot. Club (March). — N. L. Br ritton, ‘J. S. New- 

berry’ (portrait), — J. H. Redfield, «I. QO, Martindale.’ —HE.L. 
Gregory, ‘Anatomy as a special department of Botany.’ — W. G. 
Farlow, pag Bes Alge,’ — B. D. Hal rea Hiteeme aa arnt 

s.’—J, 


est, 
biguum, sp. nn. — J. De eby, ‘Pose Aliso! of Ca ioenia’ _. : 
Allen, ‘New Characem’ (Nitella formosa, N. Japonica, spp. nn. }. oo 
‘ i eract at plate). 


Erythea (April). — EB. L. Gre e, ‘ Vegetation of summit of 
Mount Hamilton.’ —Id., «N Ey Occideniales. — A. Davidson, 
‘Immigrant Plants of Los Angelos County.’ 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (Mar. 25). — Gal lanthus maximus Baker 
(n. sp. or hybr. ?).—H, N, Ridley, ‘ Aceoclades maculata,’ —(Ap.1). 
Tris atrofusca B sp. n.—(Ap. 15), Bletia Godseffiana Kranzlin, 
Oncidium Sesiad O’Brien, spp. n 

Trish Naturalist (April). — R. Li Praeger, ‘ Flora of County 
Armagh.’ — W. Swanston, Be Wood of Lough Neagh,’— 
N. Colgan, ‘ Flora of Aran Is 


-BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. “159 


Journal de Botanique (April 1).— P. Hariot, ‘Flore crypto- 
gamique de ile Jan oats — L. Mangin, ‘Recherches sur les 
composées pectiques..—E. G. Camus, ‘ Monographie des Orchidées 
de France’ (contd. .). Apel 16). L. Guignard, ‘ Sur le developpe- 
ment de la graine’ (contd.).—A. Fra neh Gerbera Tanantii, sp.n.. 

La Notarisia (Oct.—Dec. 1892). — . West, ‘Nonnulle alge 
aque dulcis Lusitanice.’—F. Del Torr ee ‘ | Aleusye altre osservazioni 
sulle Alghe.’—D. Levi-Morenos, ‘ L’origine della Pietra techie? 

— KK. De Wildeman, ‘ ‘ Sur la ‘Cyanophilie’ et l’ ‘EKrythrophilie’ 
des noyaux renin — F. Castracane, ‘ Nuovo tipo di diatomea 
pelagica italian 


. Nuovo Giorn, Bot. Italiano (Ap. 10). — S. Sommier, ae 
botanici di un viaggio all’ Ob Seay. —N. C. Kindberg, ‘ Ex- 
cursions bryologiques.’ — E. Baroni , ‘ Osservazioni sul joltine e di 
al p 08. 

Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (March).— H. Zukal, * Hymenobolus 
(gen.nov. Perichenacearum) par eee: AY plate). —R. v. We tstein, 
Die Arten der Gattung Hephror —K. Fritsch, Preise ara en 
Bemerkungen.’— vers, ‘ Higiodaia Solilapidis & H. pulchrum.’ 


V. Schiffner, ‘ Silat atria iiber die mpi ’ (conel.). — F. 
ee ‘Lichenologische Fragmente.’ — (April). A. Kerner, 
Scabiosa Trenta (1 plate). — V. Schiffner, Mileadiiopete pusilla 
(1 plate). —H. Zukal, Lachnobolus pygmeus, sp.n.— P. Ascherson, 

Veronica campestris Schmalh. 


BUOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


Tur death of ALPHONSE aga iaqerud which eye Lanne on 4 
4th of ‘Apel, at Geneva, in his eighty-seventh yea moves fro 
us the second, though happily not the last, bitenisal supihedeitiatite 
of a name which has or iar a century occupied a prominent 


other p 
oe number to publish some notes regarding the 
Matha mabe which will be of interest to the readers of oo 
Journal, of which he was always a friend, an whi h 
unfrequently naaiered by being the medium of his Botanioal 
communications 
Dearta has indeed been busy lately among botanists. In addition 
to — in our cate issue, we have to record the loss of Isaac C. 
aE, of New Jersey, of exsis a biography appears in re 
Torey: "Bulletin for March. Mr. Martindale was born Jul 
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- ON SOME MARINE ALGA) FROM NEW ZEALAND. 
By R. J. Harvey Grssoy, M.A., F.L.8. 2 
(Puare 885.) 


In the summer of 1892 I received from Prof. Jeitroy F ie 
PBs of Dunedin, the first instalment of a series of Mar 


though largely consisting of well- cnown : rms, afforded me f 
a ding some new facts to our Inowledge of several Pheophycew 


d Rhodop 
Mrangton and Brighton, by Prof. Parker and Mr. A. Hamilton, 
Registrar of the Otago University. I have % record my indebted- 
ness to the officials of the British Museum for granting me 
facilities for study in the Cryptogamic herbasio, ane also to the 
algologists mentioned in this paper for aid and a 


List or Species. 


CyanopH RuoporHyce®, 
Feularia ara Hary. Rhodochorton Parkeri, n. sp. 
CHLOROP Antithamnion Ptilota (Hook, et 


Codium ania (Huds.) Harv.) Harv. : 
Staekh. Pleonosporium Brounianum 
Caulerpa articulata Harv. |Harv.) Harv. Gibs. 


C. sedoides Ag. Ptilota formosissina Mont, 
he lactuca (L. )L Ceramium r er um (Huds.) Ag. 
romorpha peat (L.) C. apiculatu 
ae. Microcladia Cohan Harv. 


Cladophora valonioides Sond. Nemalion ramulosum Hary. 
a by Prof. Kjellman]. Gigartina disticha 


Paxopuyces. G. stiriata (Turn.) J. Ag. 
CG; avechnc torulosa J. Ag. G. radula (Esper.) J. Ag. 
Hormosira Banksit Feces and G. flabellata J. Ag. 
var. Siebert Harv. G. angulata J. Ae: {named by 
Spincinieiums rugosum Grev. Prof. Schm 
C abrere Kitz. var, Callophyllis tes Mont. 


Heiaee Hook. et Harv. C. variegata Bory. 
Glossophora Harveyi J. Ag. Se sed torulosa Hook. et 


; Rke 
Cor. i a umbellata :§ ‘Ag. Caahegoudrss furcellatus J. Ag. 
C. eystop Gracilaria dura J. Ag. 
enocystis Toueat Hook. et G. ramulosa J. Ag. 
Harv olyzonia cuneifolia Mont., var. 
Scytothamnus australis Hook. et bifida Hook. . 
Harv. Polysiphonia dendritica Ag. 


JournaL or Botany.—Vou. 81, [Junez, 1893.] M 


162 SOME MARINE ALG FROM NEW ZEALAND. . 


Ruopoprycex. Ruopopuycez, 
P. Hystrix Hook. et Harv. Pachymenia dichotoma J. Ag. 
P. Mallardie Hary. named by Prof. Schmitz.] 
P. Gaudichaudii Ag. Dumontia filiformis (Lyngb.) 
P. cloiophylla Ag., var. corym- Grey., var. ? 
bosa J. Ag. Corallina officinalis L. 
Curdiaa laciniata Harv. C. Cuviert Lamx. [named by 


Hymenocladia lanceolata J. Ag. Graf zu Solms-Laubach. 
Lenormandia spectabilis Sond., Jania micrarthrodia Lamx. 
var. angustifolia Harv. Melobesia amplexifrons Harv. 


OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN SPECIES, 


CavLERpa aRticuLata Harv.; Harvey, in Hooker & Harvey’s Flora 
of New Zealand, ii. p. 261.—This species has been found, I believe, 


e 
Zealand. It is briefly described by Harvey (i. ¢.). Like that of 
Colenso, the present plant has no creeping rhizome. Histo- 
logically it is remarkable for the delicacy of its trabecule. The 
plant was kindly identified for me by Madame Weber van Bosse. 
I give a drawing of the plant, natural size, as no figure has, so far 
as I am aware, been published. 

ARPOMITRA CABRERE Kiitz. var. Hanyseris Hook. et Harv. ; 
Hooker & Harvey, Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 528.—In the Flora 
of N. Zealand (vol. ii. p. 217), Hooker and Harvey consider C. 
Halyseris as merely “a broader and more distinctly midribbed form 
) Kiitz.” I have examined specimens of C. Cabrere Kiitz., 


Johnson also describes the minute histol f th ductive 
organs, but merely figures th ogy of the reproducti 


quite similar to those already published by Harvey and others. 
instead of forming a compact 


SOME MARINE ALGH FROM NEW ZEALAND. 1638 


branch of var. a ogee is always trifid, the central tooth being the 
oldest and having the two lateral teeth developed monopodially. 
elops into a ptacle. r 


tion of sporangia an raphyses commences by alteration and 
growth of the small- allots superficial layers immediately surround- 
ing the apical tuft of hairs. From this point the dovelapiens 
proceeds in a basipetal manner. The cortical layers at the sam 


e iner 
The cortex curls backwards and outwards from the apex, formin 
an oblique collar with its edge turned ‘inwards. The obliquity 
(which varies in degree in different branches) is owing to more 
rapid formation of sporangia and paraphyses on one s side than on 
the other ; the axis of the cone thus comes to be noncoincident with 
that of the branch. 

ADENocyYSsTIS i eos Hook, et Harv. ; Kjellman, Bihang Till k. 
Svenska Vet. Akad. Hand. Bd. 16, iiii—The plants in the present 
collection are provided with the ‘‘ gland-like spots’ described by 


po e y 
made out to be unilocular sporangia developed from the cells of the 
subepidermal Mag and lying between the cells of the superficial 
l addition many of the branches have scattered over them 
anata, which in pe ows show a dense tuft of elongated cay eee: 
arising in a depression of the cortex, and —_ similar to those 
described by Kjellman in Adenocystis. 1 have not in my eee 
sufficient material we enable me to determine sanciiial the nature 
of these structure 
Rhodo ohana Parkeri, n n. sp.—Filamentis ramosis, 83-5 mm. 
altitudine, apicibus acuminatie; binia vel ternis spinis aptis, secun- 
datim positis ; filamentis arctissimis per rhizoda subramis orientia. 
Sporangiis in intimo latere ramorum infimorum positis; tetrasporis 


Growing at the base of a cluster of molluscan (?) eggs there 
occurred this curious species, which at first sight recalled, save as 


pas la curieuse petite higes que Vv me communi nique Dans la 
preparation que vous m’avez sn Se je trouve un aanas dnt le 
containe, fortmente contracté, semble indiquer une division cruciale 
des tetraspores et confirmier l'attribution generique que 


examination with the aid of reagents. This I did, and was able to 
confirm the previous observations on which my opinion as to the 
m 2 


164. SOME MARINE ALGH FROM NEW ZEALAND. 


as long as the main stem. The angles of the branches with the 
main stem are very acute. Each branch is slightly curved 


e ; 
sporangia arise in clusters secundately on the inner sides of the 
branches near their point of origin. The basal cell of the common 
pedicel is considerably broader than the rest. The tetraspores are 
cruciate, and innovati 


and Harvey, Lond. Journ. Bot. iy. p. 272.—This rare and distinct 
species occurs in the present collection as an epiphyte. The 
closely-packed subulate simple pinnule, arising in pairs from every 
joint, compel place it in the genus Antithamnion. The 
plants bear tetraspores secundately arranged on the inner side of 
the bases of the ultimate pinnules. 

OsPoRIUM Brovunianum Harv. Gibs. ; Callithamnion Brouni- 
irvey, L'rans. Roy. Ir. Acad. xxii. p- 561.—T wo specimens of 
this species have been sent me, one with sexual, the other with asexual 
ruit. On comparison with the specimens in the herbarium of the 


always, when ture, more than four ; ec ar 
quite those of the genus Pleonosporit m not those of a true 
Callithamnion Further, the cystocarpia, both in the specimens 
from Port P lip New Zealand, are 


from other members of the genus in that the primary axis is 
falsely corticated with downwardly directed branches, giving the 
er 


.e 4 FORMOSIssima . Mont.— Several very fine specimens, 
plentifully tetrasporic, occur in the present collection. According 
to Sonder: (Linnea, 1858, p. 514), this species is only a variety of 
P. coralloidea J. Ag, Agardh himself (Epic. p. 79) remarks, “ Neo 


SOME MARINE ALGH FROM NEW ZEALAND. 165 


logical differences in the thallus. P. plumosa is very much closer 
in structure to P. formosissima than P. ails idea 

AMIUM aPiouLAtuM J. Ag.—This species oceurred as an epi- 
phyte on Codium ——— and was kindly identified for me by 
Prof. Schmitz. I have mpared it with the specimens in the 
herbarium of the British Manne (named by Agardh) and found it 
to agree in all respects. In a Epicrisis (p. 105) Agardh indicates 
that the a had not been seen by him. My plants, as 

well as those in the Br itish Museum herbarium, are plentifully 
provided with both ese mae se cystocarpia, the latter being of 
the usual type found in the 
ICROCLADIA COULTERI Wasees : Ahn Ner. Bor. Amer. p. 209.— 

merican species has not, so far as 1 am aware, been recorded 
hitherto from Australian seas. The plants bore tetraspores, cysto- 
carps, and antheridia. The anthe re of which I can find no 
description, are modified from the terminal branchlets, the pol- 


ep 

layer. I fail to see any evidence of Agardh’s —— ( Epic. p. 
110), ** Spherospore mihi sai hie divisee obveneru 

Nemation ramMuLosum Harv.; Harvey in Hook. ‘ Harv. Flora 
of N. Zeal. ii. p. 245.—By Agardh (Epic. p. 508) this spe cies is 
mentioned under ‘ Species inquirende. ” Prof. Parker 
includes a Nemalion, which is undoubtedly N. ramulosum of Harvey, 
oper oed in all respects save that the plant is rather smaller. 
Harvey's plant was not in fruit. That which I possess has very 
cintiagrente cystocarpia tying among ary dichotomous peripheric 
filaments and quite typical for the gen 

PoLyZoniIA CUNEIFOLIA Mont. var. BIFIDA 1; Hook. et Hary.; Harve 


In his Syill. P be also he gi ‘lora 
of New Zealand, Hooker and Harvey describe the present variety, 
giving as its diagnostic characters ‘ foliis 8 


bifidis vel bipartitis, stichidiis ample cristatis.” Kitzing gives a 
figure - the species (Tab. Phyc. 15, vi). The plants collected by 
Mr. n — plentifally supplied _ —— es _ 
santheridin The stichidia do not, as the type form, becom 

‘* pinnately co meedy * but are -sirast ali piniphs or venetian 
double. The attachment discs on P. cuneifolia var. bifida are, so 
far as one can judge by an examination of herbarium specimens of 


disc. More rarely an attachment disc and a ae ch arise from wa 
same articulation. Hach disc is provided with a short stalk compos 
of two singed cells, which are prolongations of two of the 


166 SOME MARINE ALG# FROM NEW ZEALAND. 


One or 
antheridia, and as these organs seem not to be well known in the 


genus, and not at allin P. cuneifolia, Ladd a brief description. E 


rows of pollinoids appear to stretch in radial lines to the margin. 
The antheridium ends in a narrow projection, which is split up at 
the apex into three or more teeth. he whole antheridium 
appears to drop off, for behind the last antheridium on a given 
branch each foliar appendage is single, but has the stump of the 
antheridium still prominent, 

ONTA DENDRITICA Ag. ; Harvey, Ner. Austr. p. 47.—Thi 


present collection as an epiphyte on Gigartina stiriata and G. 
radula. In describing the species, Harvey (/.c.) states that the stem 
is triply pinnate, ‘“ pinnge alternating with subulate ramuli elongate 
patent, bipinnate ; the pinnules in like manner alternate with sub- 
ramuli.” He adds, “Iam not certain whether this be the plant 


feared to quote Montagne’s Orb, Voy. Patag. p. 6, tab. 4, whose 
figure, taken from the Patagonian specimens, differs from my plant 
i in the 


description of the Brazilian form (Syst, 104), —- In- 
ordinate ramosa, pinnis simplicibus compositisque intermixtis.’ 
These authors add, — « We consider 8 apparent, not real, 


THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 167 


of these ramuli tertiary branches are formed, and s * The 
plants which I possess are as undou spose ‘aentical writh those 
described by Hooker and Harvey, as they are not with those of 
Montagne. On the other hand, the P. slendlestien figured by Kitzing 
is obviously that of Montagne. I cannot follow Hooker and 


at first, and afterwards every second ramulus, alternating on either 
side, develops secondary pinnules. In almost all the specimens 
this alternate compound branching i is quite regular; but in one or 
two, itedinididte stages occur where the ramuli are alternately 
smooth and wavy; and lastly, in others all are quite h 
Dumonr1a Fitiroris (Lyngb.) Grev., var.? Ihave experienced 
some difficulty in pei this plant. Prof. a to whom 


sent a specimen, gave it as his opinion that it was near Nemastoma. 
I confess I ae: not share that vi view. I — at ‘frst that it was not 
unlike ee en ee J. Ag., it di agree in 


a 

pean variety of that species. The plant has only tetraspores, 
that in absence of eystocarpic fruit I am compelled to record it 
with a query. 


Expianation or Prats 335.—Fig. 1. Ceteie articulata Harv., nat. oar 
2—4, Carpomitra Cabrere Kiitz., var. Halyseris Hook. et Harv 2, Apex of 


of origin of sporan gial layer x 20. 4. gee recone in long. vert, sect. 
x 20. 5. Rhodochorton Par keri, n. sp., nat. . Filaments of the same, 
with sporangia x 20. 7. Sporangia of the Miathe x 200. 8. Stichidium of 
Polyzonia cuneifolia var. bifida x 200. 9. Antheridium of same x 200 


THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 
By Freperic N. Wituams, F.L.S. 


the delimitation of genera and on onieroa oa groups of 
wads , which have taken place from time to time in the order 
Cariiek yllace@, no penta has probably received eg rou ond handling 
and mutilation, more particularly at the hands of critical systematists 
in continental floras, as the genus Lychnis. Even in an attenuated 


German fi | 
rather than in ntroduce strange names into their lists of genera, 
~ have indefensibly caiiehed Silene at its expense. In discussing the 


168 THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 


affinities of Si/ene and Lychnis, more especially in connection with 
the disintegration of the latter genus, the selection of such species 
as may serve for generic types will be facilitated by associating with 
them the Linnean genus Agrostemma.* 


characteristic of the or and this character has been selected 
for grouping the species into two primary subdivisions,—those i 
which the capsule is truly unilocular, and e in which the 


the secondary subdivisions of these two main groups, we will 
discuss first the affinities of the Lychnis group, and then the 
ou 


In Agrostemma Githago} the carpels are alternate with the teeth 
of the calyx, in Lychnis chalcedunica they are opposite to them; 


dryum, which includes L. dioica Linn. and L. diclinis Lag., as wel 
as those species of Silene in which the capsule is unilocular, the 
teeth of the dehiscent capsule are twice as many as the styles 
(dimerous), 

The genus Heliosperma,§ which branches off, as it were, from 


* Systema Nature (1735), ed. 2 (1740), ed. 6 (1748), p. 107; Genera Plant- 
arum (1737), n. 879, ed. 2 (1742), n. 449, ed. 5 (1754), ie bis. ce. 

t Ed. 1, p. 135, n. 380; ed. 2, p, 200, n. 450. 

} Cosson regards this as a quasi-cultivated form, of which the type is the 
Anatolian A. gracile Boiss. There are no other species known. amt 

§ Reichb. Repert. Herb. p. 206, : 


THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 169 


Melandryum (both having fig es characters which separate them 
from Lychnis proper), was founded by Reichenbach in 1841 on 
ak : : 


hpbiaes. A. Bra ag a circumscribed the limits of Lychnis by 


to revive the Linnean genus Coronaria, which, s far a the 
i id 


L. paerina. So that thi ould, ie the genus Fah ee 
u 


mmissural nerves of the calyx are wanting, and as this is a 
primary racter in A. Faerie tribe of ogi pier cope 
— that this species should be the type 

ich he called pte it certainly howl be excluded se 
the Lychnis group, and seems to have affinities with Sapona 

us Coronaria, witch it is proposed to revive, is ths defined 

by anes :—* Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, claveforme, 

striatum, erectum, coriaceum "5. -angulare, 5-dentatum, persistens: 

anguli inoribus interjectis. ' Corolla. Petala 5: ungues longit. 


unilocularis, apice ‘te sade ‘Senedak ra fern abidtaieds 

enus has been taken up by Garcke in the Forres saisions of 
Deutschlands Flora, who uses it in very much the same sense as 
A. Br. Engler and Prantl § ate ly sehiih into two op meni 
Eu-lychnis and peebertere If we consider each of these as a genus 
Lychnis in this very limited sense a 1 almost exactly correspond 
with the Hedone || of Loureiro, who recorded L. coronata under the 
‘name of Hedone sinensis. 

We ow to the Silene group, including the species in which 
the capsule is plurilocular at the base. The s species referable to 
this group can be divided into two sections,—(1) ) those in which 

i UE ee Se a 


* Flora, 1843, p. si 

+ Flora, 1843, p. 3 

t Analecta Bot. i. as 54), p 

§ Die Natiirlichen Pann Theil iii. (1889), P 73, 
|| Fl. Cochinch. p. 3 


170 THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 


the capsule dehisces by twice as many teeth as ae are styles, 
and which include Si/ene Linn. (sensi limitato) and some species of 
rote vith. plurilocular capsules, for which Loishanbiaks proposed 
Eudianthe; and (2) those species in which the ciate 

teeth are isomerous with the styles, and which comprise the gen 
Viscaria of Rohling.+ If species which have five styles are oobi 
from Silene, it would be better perhaps to include Polyschemone nivalis 
Schott (Lychnis nivalis Kit.) in Hudianthe, though Rohrbach in his 
excellent and incomparable monograph has preferred to retain this 
species as well as Agrostemma mt rosa{ in Silene. As long ago as 
1825, Robert Sweet, in discussing the affinities of the plant now 
known as Heliosperma alpestre, pa that the genus Silene was 
very much overgrown, and threw out the suggestion that ‘‘ those 
(species) with an inflated calyx will probably form ongntenee natural 
— Though the disintegration of such genera as Silene has 
proceeded on the lines indicated by this Eatinipaisiys horti- 
calttiridt, and though superficial and obvious characters such as the 
structure of the riper envelope have not been considered of generic 

im gr 


species only emphasizes still more what Fries said, that it is a 
‘genus vastissimum undique ad reliqua radios emittens.”’ 
tabular conspectus of the ates here mentioned will best 
illustrate their differential diagnosi 
A. tae lame unilocular 
a. Pane alterdato with the teeth of the calyx. 
nore none. Styles 5. Capsule 5- 
. AGRosTEMMA, 
b. Ciple eppeaiie the teeth of the calyx, An- 
thophore conspicuous, often elon 
a. Capsule eae by teeth aauiat fi in number 
the sty’ 
* Petals sonyotieg’ in prefloration. Appen- 
ices fornicate at the base . Lyounis. 
nis: Petals convolute in prefloration Appen- 
ces efornicate at the bas Coronaria, 
seal Petals imbricate in preflraton ‘Seeds 
bearded at the hilum PrErRocoptis. 
B. Ape dehiscing by twice as many teeth as 


= Seeds crested on the dorsal surface. 
yle HEiosPeRMA, 
** Seeds bk crested on the dorsal surface. 
Styles 5, rarely ; . MELANDRYUM. 
B. Capsule ss ies at the 
a. Capsule dehiscing — teeth equal i in number 
styles . VISCARIA. 


peck i Fil, ed. 1 (1796), i ii. p. 37. 
} Linn. Sp. Plantarum (ed. 1) ), p. 436. 
§ Flora, 1843, i. p. 123, 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 171 


b. Capsule dehiscing by twice as.many teeth as 
the styles 
a,,BbylenG 4 ania ‘ , ; , . EuprantHe. 
B. Styles3 . ‘ ‘ : , ; . SILEN 


If one redistribution of species be accepted, it will be ree 
to note the changes of nomenclature that would be required in 
British species of Lychnis. In the last edition of the London 
Catalogue six species are referred to _ genus. The alternative 
names are placed in a parallel column 


Lychnis albat Mill. Melandryum pratense Rohl. (1796). 
Lychnis diurna Sibth. Melandryum silvestre Rohl. (1796). 
Lychnis Flos-cuculi Linn. Coronaria Flos-cuculi A. Br. (1848). 
Lychnis Viscaria Linn, Viscaria vulgaris Rohl. (1 798) 
Liponeurum alpinum Schott (1854). 
Saponaria ? alpina. 

Lychnis Githago Lam. = <Agrostemma Githago Linn. (1753). 


Hou Wt 


I 


Lychnis alpina Linn. 


The genus Melandryum also claims another British species, 
Silene Be is 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALG OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


By Eruet 8. Barton. 
(Continued from p. 144.) 


CHETANGIACES. 
Vanarprnta Marcinata J. Ag. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 
oa Bay, Bowerbank ! Port Alfred. a ! Kei Mouth, Fi rab 
Port ‘Natal, Krauss! Gueinzius! No. 4077. 
Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic. Indian Ocean. Australia 
Oineslactme saccatum J. Ag. Sea Point, Kalk Bay, Boodle! 
Cape, Harvey ! 
C. ornatrum J. Ag. Seal coer Challenger! From Table Bay 
to Port Natal, Areschoug. $i s Bay 
Kalk Bay, Boodle! E. Young! Gaps Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 343. 
Cape, Ecklon, Drege | re gp Ths Phye. ri ominin exsice. No, 19 ; 
Hb. Lenormand! Harvey! Relig. Breb.! No. 187; Reeve ! 
C. Zeyuert Kiitz. Cape, Hb. Hering, fide Kiitzing. 


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GELIDIEE. 
Prmornora spissa J. Ag. Cape, Drege. 
P. pinnatirina J. Ag. (= CaRPOBLEPHARIS PINNATIFOLIA J. Ag.). 
Algos Bay, Ecklon. 


nit 


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t An inappropriate name : other species have white flowers and in this 
red. 


species the flowers are sometimes pale r 


172 MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


Getipium serratum Kiitz. (? = G. serrutatum J. Ag.). Cape, 
Jide Kiitzing 
?G. 28 MJ. Ag. Cape, Hb. Mus. Brit.! | This specimen is 
too frngmentary to identify with accuracy. 
istr. Throughout warm seas. 


G.c cineuM J. Ag. Robben Island, Boodle! Table Bay, 

Wenek! Cape Point, Boodle! Kalk Bay, E. Young! Camps Bay, 

ynolds! Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! No 3 5 AON an 
Boodle! Kei Mouth, Flanaga Cape, Campbel Sloa 


Hb. 

290; Seba, Ecklon, Hb, Pulteney! Parreyss! Thunberg! Hort. Clif. 
- Trimen! Hb. Shuttleworth! Hb, Roem.! Hb. Grunow! Scott Elliot ! 
Var. setaceum Ag. Plettenberg Bay, Home! Cape, Hohenack.! 

No. 558, sub seo teagan asperum Grey. ? No. 560, sub nomine 

Gelidium fons 
gel Distr. Tidtath and Pacific Oceans. W. Indies. 

G. austrate J. Ag. = G. asperum Harv. Camps Bay, Tyson ! 

—_ Bay, Haren, ! 

. Distr. OS 
c pl Grev. Natal, Krauss. 
Geogr. Distr. Australia 
G. corneum Ag. Se w Point; Harvey! Mossel Bay, Hb. Shuttie- 
worth! Algoa err Ecklon, Bowerbank! Port Alfred, ch Natal, 

Gueinzius! Cape, Drege! Krauss ! os Hb. Dick 
Geogr. Distr. Throughout all ocean 
SYRINGOCOLAX MA cunpeenesiints Reinsch, On Gelidium  carti- 

slemeahe J. Ag., Thunberg ! 


Suni prisrowes J. Ag. Table Bay, Ecklon. Cape Point, 
Boodle! "Kk alk Bay, Boodle, E. Young! Knys na, Boodle! Cape 
Recife, Bowerbank! Algoa Bay, Ecklon, Hb. Dickie! Port Alfred, 


Carr! Natal, Krauss. ne Robertson, Menzies | Thankers Krauss 
Ab, Lenorm cae Harvey 

S.R s Grun. Ga ape, Frauenfeld ; on Haliotys and Patella. 
eos thinks this may possibly be a dwarf form of S. pristoides 
J. Ag. 

8. virrata J. Ag. Robben Island, Wenek! Boodle! Table Bay, 
Ecklon, Krauss, Muysenberg, Harvey | Cape Point, Sea Point, 
Boodle! Gordon’s Bay, Keklon. Kalk oi FE. Young! Camps 

Ise i Ag 


No. 226; Relig . Brebissoniane, Nos. 109, 184. Cape, Hb. Linnaes! 
Drege Daromet Gaudichaud, D’ Urville, Hb. Grunow! Wallroth ! 
Pr ak Distr. Moluccas. Shores of South America. New South 


Prerociapia Lucipa J. Ag. Algoa Bay, Ecklon, 
Geogr, Distr. Australia. New Zealand. 


Hypneacem, 
Hypyea Ecxtoni Suhr. Port Alfred, Slavin ! 
H. muscwormis J, Ag, Cape Agulhas, Iohenack! No. 890. 


MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 173 


Knysna, Krauss, Boodle! Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Natal, Gueinzius ; 
Cape, Hb. Dickie! 
Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic. W. Indies. Indian and Southern 
Oceans. 
H. rriscopatis Hook. et Harv. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 
Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tasmania. 
H. ceramrowes Kiitz. Cape, Harvey! Pappe! Hb. Kew! 
H. spinecta J. Ag. Natal, Krauss. 
Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. 

H. spicirera J. Ag. ‘Table Bay, Pappe! Cape Point, Boodle ! 
Simon’s Bay, R. Brown! Pappe! Kalk Bay, F. Young ! Boodle 
Cape Agulhas, Hohenack! No. 193. Knysna, Boodle! Algoa Bay, 
Keklon, Holub! Port Alfred, W. Carr! Kei Mouth, Flanagan! 
Natal, Gueinzius, Krauss! Cape, Harvey! 

Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. Indian Ocean. 

H. armata J. Ag. Simon’s Bay, Rh. Brown! Cape, Hb, Kew ! 
Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. 
Mycnopga carnosa Harv. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. Tasmania. 


SoLmeRIEz. 

Evcneuma sprnosum J, Ag. Cape, Hb. Linneus. False Bay, 
MeMillan ! ; 

Geogr. Distr. Indian Ocean. Cape York. W. Indies. 

Geniprum acuLeatum (= ? Eucueuma). Port Alfred, Slavin ! 
Natal, Krauss, Gueinzius ! 

Cavtacantaus vustuLatus Kiitz. Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape, 
Scott Elliot! Muysenberg, Tyson ! 

Geogr. Distr, Mediterranean. Atlantic. China Sea. 

Merrsroraeca naTatensis J. Ag. Port Natal, Hb. J. E. Gray. 

Ruapponra viotacea J. Ag. Cape, fide Agardh, 


- LoMENTARIER. 
Lomentarta capensis J. Ag. Table Bay, Harvey. Muysenberg, 
Tyson! Simon’s Bay, R. Brown! Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape, 
Harvey 
WRANGELIACEE. : 
Wraneetia purrurirera J. Ag. (= CALLITHAMNION PURPURIFER 
Harv.). Cape, Harvey! 
CHONDRIEZ. 
Lavrencta corymposa J. Ag. Cape, Hb. Dickie ! 
Geogr. Distr. . Indies. 
L. sorvowwss J. Ag. Muysenberg, Harvey! Kalk Bay, Boodle! 
Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! Cape, Hohenack.! No. 572. 
Geogr. Distr. Austra ia. 
L. vircata Ag. Seal Island, Challenger! Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack. | No. 184, fide Grunow. Cape, Harvey 
Geogr. Distr. Australia. New Zealand? W. Indies. 


174 MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


L. riexuosa J. Ag. Oape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 184, 
Knysna, Boodle! Cape, R. Trimen! Hb. Dickie! 

Var. puma Grun. a Gueinzius. 

ae mi W. Indie 

L. 4 Harv. — “Alfved, Slavin! Kei Mouth, Flanagan ! 
Cape, Base! Hohenack. 

Geogr. Distr. gual 

L. prvaricata J. Ag. rt se J. Agardh, 

Geogr. Distr. Tn warm 

L. Forsrerr J. Ag. Oat, Hervey 

Geogr. Distr. . Australia. 

L. pryyattrma Lam. Seal Island, Challenger ! ‘oh hte 6 Be 
H. D. Home ! Algoa Bay, Ecklon. Cape, Har One of the 
‘Challenger’ specimens is named L. virgata J. Ag: Pind yeti to 
under this name in Dr. Dickie’s list of Simon’s Bay Alge published 
in the Linnean Society’ s Journal, vol. xv. 

se one Atlantic. Mediterranean. W. Indies. Australia. 

4 Grev. Cape Recife, Bowerbank! Hb. Dickie! Algoa 
Bay, Harey yt “Dabs, Ab. Dickie! Hohenack. ' 

coy istry. Warm ores Indian Ocean. Australia. 
Pasibies, _Mediverranean 

Lavrencia nysripa J Ag. Kei Mouth, i 

Geogr. ‘Diet Atlantic Sasi W. Indie 

L. mortrormis Kiitz. Cape, Pa, 

conctnna Mont. So Natal, Dr. Stanger, ivsinitieg Krauss, 

Geogr. Distr. Austr, 

L, waxa Beil Gapdl ‘z Brown. Natal Bay, Krauss, 

: ALam. False Bay, McMillan! Kalk Bay, FE. Young! 
Boodle! “Oapd Agulhads, Hohenack.! No. 884. (This specimen is 
included by phere un a er L; sgaey Ag.) Algoa Bay, Ecklon, 
Bowerbank. Natal, K; 

Var. PYRAMIDALIS, “Ales pe + Harey 

Var. ceLatinosa. Nat 

Geogr. Distr. Throughout ite seas. 

- Detisea Sunrn J. Ag. False Bay, McMillan! Cape Agulhas, 
Hohenack.! No. 400. St. Sebastian Bay, Miss Borcherds! Algoa 
Bay, Ecklon, 

RaopoMELex, 

SARCOMENIA INTERMEDIA Grun. Cape, Jelinek. 

ili Dit, St. Paul's Rocks. 

HONDRIOPSIS CaPENSIS J. Ag. Table Bay, Harvey, 
uth ong) Cape Agulhas, Hohenack. ! 


aes, Distr.” W. Indies. 


AcANTHOPHORA mUscoIDES Bory. Algoa Bay, Bowerbank | 
Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic, 


Tyson! Cape 
Cape, Harvey! Hb. 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 175 


Bosrrycnia tenetta J. Ag. Port Natal, Krauss! False Bay, 
Jide Suhr. 

Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic and Pacific. Indian Ocean. 

- mixta Hook. et Harv. Muysenberg, Harvey. Cape Point, 
Boodle! Simon’s Bay, R. Brown! Kalk Bay, Kak Boodle ! 
Cape, Harve 

Geogr. Distr. New Zealand. Tasmania. 

B. Biyperi Harv. Port Natal, Krauss. False Bay, fide Suhr 

MarTEnsIA ELEGANS Hering. Port Natal, Krauss ! Nos. 271, 272, 
Gueinzius 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. 

Ruopometa susrusca Ag. Table Bay, Harvey! Cape Point, 
Boodle | 

Geogr, Distr. North Atlantic (to Greenland). North Pacific? 

Msgr seRRATA J, Ag, Kei Mouth, Flanagan! Port Natal, Drege! 

PuacopHora Binpert J. Ag. Port Elizabeth; on Amphiroa 
Spencer ! "Kei Mouth ; on Codium tomentosum Ag., Flanagan! Cape, 
Hb, Binder, Hohenack.! Hb, Dickie! 

Pobvellidul Smiruim Harv. Kei eee Flanagan ! 

eogr. Distr. Australia, Tasmani 

Ponyzonta ELEGANS Suhr. Kei Mo an Flanagan! Algoa Bay, 

Ecklon, Harvey! Port Alfred, Slavin! Port Natal, Krauss! Cape, 


pe. 
ogr. Distr. Australia. 
Dasya contanens Hook. et Harv. = AsPEROCAULON COLLABENS 
Rud. Table Bay, Gordon’s Bay, Ecklon. 
Geogr. Distr. Australia, New Zealand. 
D. pusra Suhr. False Bay, fide Suhr. Algoa Bay, Ecklon. 
J.G. Agardh (Spec. gen. et ord. vol. ii. a 3, gig — this 


the Cape Alge. 
. Cauurraamnton Harv. On Galaxaura; Port Elizabeth, Spen- 
This specimen is much smaller than that collected by Harvey 
in F Atitentia. but it is ane the same species. 
gr. Distr, Austra 
D. retuucipa Harv. Muysonbors Harvey ! 
Geogr. Distr. Australia 
D. scoparia Har . Green Nae Harvey. = Mouth, Flanagan! 
Port Natal, Pisa b in | Hb. B Cape, Harvey 
PoysIPHONIA FASCICULIFERA a Cape, ea 
P. renesrosa Harv. Muysenberg, Harvey! This species is said 


by J. Agardh (Spec. Gen. et Ord. vol. ii. part 8, pp. 1054-5) to have 
waist fahed I find Saal esa at sixteen. 
P. acantuina J. Ag. (= BR La@a pumosa Harv.). False Bay, 


near Muysenberg, Ha hag Cape Scott Hiliot | 
Geogr. Distr. St. Paul’s Island, 


176 MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


P. arroruBescens Grev. Table Bay, Ecklon. Cape, Harvey. 
mt nam N, eran Falklands. 


P, ns Har a Bay, Bowerbank! on Amphiroa 
spina te Hare: Port lizabed Spencer 
Geogr. Distr. Australia 


Ls — Harv. Port Natal, Krauss. 

P. mBIFERA Ag. Table Bay, Harvey! Natal, Gueinzius ; 
on Dlsaaphors Eckloni. Cape, Ecklon 

P. urpana Harv. Sea Point, Tyson | Cape, Harvey ! 

P, arenarta Harv. Hout’s Bay shore, near Muysenberg, Har- 
mi. myc Bay, Boodle! 

mpta Harv. Muysenberg, Harvey | Kalk Bay, Boodle ! 

weiaetes 8 ret Challenger! The ‘Cha allenger’ specimen is too im- 
mature to identify with certainty; it is, however, probably this 


species. 
Geogr. Distr. W. Indies. 


P. Srancert Harv. Port Natal, Stanyer! 


E. Young! Cape gaat Hohenack. | a, Kraus, 
Drege! Areschoug, Phye. extr raeurop. exsicc. ree 0; Hohenack.! 
; rvey! Relig. Brebisson. N 12; Prldine Reeve ! 


! a 
Ag., P. complanata Sp., P. Gaudichaudii J. Ag., and P. fasciculifera 
Kitz. I entirely agree with him as to all, except P. complanata 
Ag., which seems to me to resemble more nearly P, cloiophylla Ag. 

Geogr. Distr. South Atlantic (Braz zil). 

P. monocarpa oe og Gaudichaud, Hb. Montagne! 

Geoyr. Distr.. W. Indies 

P. uRcEOLATA 1 Ove. Table Bay, Harvey 

ee Distr. N. Atlantic. N. Pacific. ‘Baltio. 

Pro aNATA Spreng. Cape, Gaudichaud, D’ Urville, Hombron, 
I am disposed to think that these specimens were probably Fs 
 tlotophylla Ag., ae no Cae specimen of P. complanata has been 

recorded from the Ca: 

Geogr. shes N. ‘Atlantic, Mediterranean. 

P. cuoiopaynia Ag. Camps Bay, Tyson! Cape Point, Kalk 
Bay, Boodle! kaon ay “AUss. "elves Trimen! Reeve! Harvey! Hb. 
Dickie! Hb. Lenorm 

Var. patens J. a Table Bay, Zederbery! Boodle! ar 
Bay, Ecklon. Cape, Areschoug, Phye. extraeurop. exsicce. No. 85 
Harvey! Hohenack.! No. 294: Relig. Brebisson.! No. 97. 


P. a a J. Ag. Cape, Genbioheed, Hb. Dickie! Brand! 


P. parasitica Grey. Ca ape, Jelinek ; on Ptilota Pappeana J. Ag. 
Grunow senhrks ys ae Plant ex ar oo with 
Kiitzing’s d,e). This leads 


gure p- 26, 
me to think that the. hie le sinied to may hive ‘deen a specimen 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 177 


of Dasya green Harv., to which the above plate bears a super- 
se resemblan 

eogr. Dies oiiaalds. Pacific. Mediterranean. 

nana Kutz. On larger alge, Table Bay, fide Kiitzing. 
FALOATA Kiitz. Cape, Pappe. 

. Pappeana Kiitz. Cape, jide Kiitzing. 

- JuncEA Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

- LinoctapiA Kiitz. Cape, Hohenack.! No. 888. ve ie cri 
of this plant in the British Museum Herbarium bears no fruit. 
I therefore cannot ne certainty identify the species, aie hoe 
on Hohenacker’s na 

Pacnycu@ra crirrirastorEs Kiitz. Port Alfred, Slavin! Cape, 
Hohenack.! No, 487, sub nomine Grifithsia brachyarthra Kiitz. 
Prof. Schmitz, in his Uebersicht der bisher bekannten Gattungen der 
Florideen, places this ay with a query, under Pilysiphcin. 

Geogr Antilles 

RytTIPHL@A TRUNOATA Kitz, Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

Kurrzineia NaTALENsIS J. Ag. Natal, Krauss. 

(To be continued.) 


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BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A., anp Wm. R. Linton, M.A, 
(Continued from p. 149.) 


Hieracium ecanpcg Backh. Andrew-whinnie, Moffat, *Dumfries- 
shire. The specimen and root were gathered by Mr. J. T, Johnstone, 


ae h, and proved by cultivation. 
and handed e a esh, and proved by Pee seed 
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bifidum Kit., var. sinuatum a Lin 

fall a the Unich Water, above Loch Lee, rome "The se 

are usually more numerous, rather broader near the base, much 

more toothed with coarse undulating teeth along each side, more 

abruptly merging into the petiole. The branching of the peduncles 

is more divergent, and we phyllaries are white-tufted. In or 
respects agreeing with t pe. We have it also from Coir 

Ceanmor, Glen Callater, 8. "aberdeen, Sale saci 1887 ; and have 

i e variet ury’s p ‘ 

see by the E WHE Fox mn Dove Crags, Fairfield, West- 


uA 
H, stenolepis Lindeb. Sgurr-na-Gillean, *Sky 
H. Sommerfeltii ica. Black’s Hope, Mofiat, *D Dane 
Dr. Lindeberg describes this plant as always having a livid style 
in Scandinavia. With us it seems most commonly to have a yellow 


Journa or Borany.—Vot. 81. [June, 1893.] N 


178 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


pi as wees Moffat plants of ours have. We gathered much the 
e form on the Glen Lyon side a Meall Ghaordie, Mid-Perth, in 
sions with the Rev. E. S. Marshall. Also formerly on rocks by 
the Breakneck Waterfall, Glen Callater, and Little Craigindal, S. 
Aberdeen, and on Craig Maskeldie, *Forfar. This form has a 


‘ 1 
ound a form with very hairy leaves near Berriedale, Caithness, 
and near Uig, *Skye, which Dr. Lindeberg accepted with the 
qualification, “ eS magis vestita.”’ 

H, ton. We add sree Doll ced Been Meer * 
other litfarshive stations for this speci We also a for 
from Coire Ardran, Mid-Perth, which ie aoe sated out re 
us was best placed under H. Pictorwm; it has the same shape of 

n 


pus 
with a greenish tint, as the type; but, on account of on following 
differences, it is thought bbe of varietal distin tion :—Var. 
dasythrix Linton, seers Lea s duller green, more hairy manent 


studded over the upper surface with stiff white hairs, and s 
entire or at most denticulate in garden-grown seedlings. 


at an altitude of about 3000 ft. Also on lower and higher rocks of 
Meall-nan-Tarmachan, and in a rocky burn in Coire Fionn, near 
Killin. The former is, we believe, a new statio 

rubicundum F. J. Hanbur ury. We Gathated this species in 
several places near Moffat in we where it was nl distinct oa 


and the Glyders, by one of us the same year; at Dunbeath and on 
the Berriedale cliffs, on the E. coast of *Caithness, i in 1888; near 
the Dhuloch, *S. Aberdeen, in 1889 ; and a dy ceik Hamars, in oe 


1884; we have also seen specimens, blisters in 1892 b Mr. L. 
Watt, feo wi Kilpatrick Hills, Sytem bartonshire. The species 


hyllum W. RB. Li eels! Reis near the road between 
Buxton and Miller’s Dale, Derbyshire. A new station several miles 
from Dovedale, where it was originally discovered. 
H. caledonicum F. J. Hanbury. On one of the sheets ae 
the plants referred to next was a single specimen of H. caledonicum 
collected “tec ve et age in 1875 at Scapa, *Orkne 


H.B -Sp. We have had 
N. of Bootlsad, ‘tie ini Yous. Wai specimens from the extreme 


revised; H. ganece i. caledonicum, H. Farrense, H. caniceps 
» & icundum ha 
pew only to be Kien : ine Mi ie 


rejected. Latel : h : 

é jec ately, when examinin 
ury's extensive collections of Hawkwee. ds, we detected soverkl 
sheets of this plant, collected by the late Dr. J. T. Boswell in the 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS, 179 


Pace 2 as _— ago as 1875, some of them placed for comparison 
arrense, some of them not assorted, but amongst the 

renee ” This fact of Dr. Boswell’s specimens, thoug 

abundant, having gone so many years undetermined, confirmed us 


specimens came, from the neighbourhood - Sligachan, ‘Sky 

more plentifully from near Vig, the Vaterish ‘Clifis, 

in the north-west of that island, an od alec so wp re the str 

beath, Caithness. Besides these stations, which are st in the 

North of Scotland, we have what is evidently the same plant fro 

rocks of Meall-nan-Tarmachan by Lochan-na-Lairige, and from 

Coire Fionn, near Killin, both in Mid-Perth. The involucre is less 

floccose and the margins of the phyllaries less markedly white, and 

the Coire Fionn plant is more glandular, but otherwise these 
1 : 


sheets, partly from numerous Skye specimens ; and the name is 
given in memory of one who not only was the first known collector 
of this ne ~~ paid much attention to the genus during many 
years before , 

Boswell Linton. Stem 6-16 in. high, a a rough 


with bulbous bases of long white hairs, sinuous, e above, 
hardly branched. Leaves ovate ane or narrow ovate-a redler ey 
thinly hairy b , glabrous above, ciliate with numerous soft hairs, 


with 
silkily hairy. Stem-leaf when present shortly petioled, ovate- 
acuminate to lanceolate, dentate, but frequently absent, and com- 
monly so in the Orkney specimens. Heads of moderate size in 


and a lands near their — floccose, cota at the margin 
and a vd subulate, very obtuse. Ligules glabrous Svea: "Styles 
livid yellow, often only slightly ‘aianetoutad: Pappus pale brown 
from “es first. It may be added that on = cimens collected by one 
of us in Orkney, Dr. Lindeberg (to whom it was sent by M 

ae remarked, ‘ Mihi ignotum. oui itulis foliisque dis- 


ae murorum L., var. ciliatum Almq. Rocks, Strome Ferry, 
Wi Limestone rocks by the road between Buxton and 
Miller’s Dale, *Derbyshire. It has also been sent us unnamed from 
the orale reser Hills, *Dumbartonshire, collected by Mr. L. ape — 

pulcherrimum F, J. Hanb. A beautiful plant from 
Glyn Neath, *Glamorgan, we put to this variety, though it differs 
in the shape of the base of the leaf—Subsp. H. sarcophyllum 
Stenstrém. In some saaiodahe about Black’s Hope and Midlaw 
Burn, near Moffat, Dumfriesshire. — Var. micracladium Dahlstedt. 
n 2 


180 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


Rocks by the falls of the Unich Water, above Loch Lee, *Forfar- 
shire. We met with this variety also among specimens collected 
by the late Dr. J. T. Boswell in 1858, in the possession of Mr. F. J. 
Hanbury, from Arniston, near Edinburgh. 

H. duriceps F. J. Hanbury. A plant from Allt Dubh Galair, 
Glen Lochay, Mid-Perth, cannot be fairly separated from this. Mr. 
Hanbury has referred in his paper (vide Journ. Bot. 1892, p. 260) 
under this name to a plant from Sneasdal, Skye, but from the 
material we possess we think this identification will not stand. We 


; ns 
admirably matching Mr. Hanbury’s gatherings from the limestone 
at Inchnadamph. We also regard a plant from various ravines 

ear Moffat, *Dumfriesshire, as this species. 
H. rivale F. J. Hanbury (H. caniceps F.J.H.). Lower rocks of 
Sgurr-na-Gillean, *Skye. Ben Hope, Sutherland (1886). Glen 
Doll, *Forfar. Coire Ceannmor, *§. Aberdeen. 
- c@sio-murorum Lindeb. - murorum Li. *ce@sio-murorum 
Lindeb. in Dahlstedt’s set, Fase. i. 64). Wooded slopes south of 
ree as well as the original station by the Quoich, 8. Aberdeen. 

ween 


Dearg Mor, and Sgurr-na-Gillean, Skye ; 
Perth, 


- cesium Fr., var. alpestre Lindeb. The Glen Lyon side of the 
Ben re ig range, Mid-Perth; and L. Wharral and Glen Doll, 


{4 cesium Fr., var. insulare F. J. Hanbury. Rocks two or three 
miles north of. en Lawers, Glen Lyon, at an altitude of about 
2000 ft., and also in the valley of the Glen, about five miles from 
Fortingal. 


is. The chief marks of distinction from H. cesium Fr, are the 


and spotted, later narrower oblong, but much broader and blunter 

type, unspotted, and denticulate rather than dentate. The 
flowers are much like those of var. insulare, neat, handsome, and of 
a deep golden yellow. Ligules glabrous (unless a Glen Doll plant 
with darker and less floccose heads and ciliate ligules may find its 
pines here), Styles uniformly livid. Involucre much more glandular 
han Fries’ cesium, The plant is from 6 to 14 in, high, the smaller 


* 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 181 


specimens from exposed rock being usually monocephalous, but in 
the garden the stem produces numerous heads. The stem-leaf is 

icu g, narrowed to both ends, when 
present, but often wanting. We have this from Ben Lawers, rocks 
of Meall-nan-Tarmachan near Lochan-na-Lairige, Craig Caillich, 
and a smaller summit between Craig Caillich and Meall Dhuin 
Croisg, all in Mid-Perth. 

. euprepes F. J. Hanbury. Among our numerous gatherings 
of this species, there has appeared to be a divergence of form, 
which comes out most distinetly in the leaf characters, both of 
which Mr. Hanbury regards as H. euprepes. There is (a) @ more 
hairy plant with rather broader leaves, which Mr. Hanbury says 


” 


strongly dentate, glabrous on the upper surface, and thinly hairy 
habe 


We record the type from the Midlaw Burn, *Dumfriesshire. 
H. stenophyes W. R. Linton, n.sp. Dull green, 14-2 ft.; 
rimary leaves orbicular, outer ovate-oblong, with a few blunt 


as H. duriceps. It seems to differ from H. stenophyes only in its 
more glandular peduncles, and ligules (presumably) more or less 


182 SHORT NOTES, 


ciliate. This new species fits into a place between H. cesium and 
Hi. vulgatum ; more exactly, it comes either just before or just after 
H. angustatum Lindeb., perhaps best just before. 

. angustatum Lindeb. e have a good series of specimens of 
the type of this species, the same which grows in the Lake 
district, from several localities near Moffat, viz., from Crofthead 
Linn, the Beeftub, and Evan Water; also from whin-rock by a 
small burn fourteen miles N. of Langholm; all from *Dumfries- 
shire, contributed by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot. This plant, however, 
is by no means identical with the H. angustatum Mr. nbury has 
referred to in his paper, that we gathered on Little Craigindal and 
at the Unich Water; and Mr. Hanbury tells us in a letter that he 
now regards these Aberdeen and Forfar specimens as H. angustatum 
var. elatum Lindeb. é: 

(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


oak ormMaL Sprinc.—You will have received many commu- 
nications about the abnormal character of the present season. 
It is so abnormal that I think a careful record of details with dates 
should be rendered permanent by printing. Possibly some of the 
following notes may be useful to you. On the 6th May I noted 


t number of annuals, 


The same species, abundant also in the streams, shows no signs of 
flowering ; but the warmth of the water has caused a luxuriant 


I ere particularly at the two Droseras and Hypericum Elodes, 


which I saw in every state of moisture, from saturation to desic- 
cation. In no one ease coul 


ably anticipated, they will be able to “come again’’; and so to 


SHORT NOTES. 183 


have made up their minds to play a waiting game. The Valerianella, 
on the other hand, feared the extinction of its race unless it could 


co 
I have sporen above & plants which I have gathered in some 


all the common autu sei weeds, such as Jasione montana, Senecio 
erucefolius, Centaurea Scabiosa, Erythrea Centaurium, &.—C. B. 
CLARKE. : 


ONCHUS PALUSTRIS IN OxrorpDsHiRE. — About four years ago the 
Rev. H. Elwell, while visiting —— told me he thought he had 
he 


seen eft palustris in the county when he was an undergraduate 
about 1867. He remembered the locality, and conducted me to 
it, at he was not absolutely certain if he it upon the exact 


deep ditch by a high hedge in a sequestered part of the county, far 
from habitation, where he first saw it. Our a was unsuccessful, 
and I am bound to say my own opinion was that a form of S. 
arvensis had been mistaken for it. The sooality. though damp, was 
not quite my idea of the place to find S. palustris, and the record 
remains unconfirmed. Recently Mr. Riddelsdell told me he thought 
S. palustris occurred in a certain district, which at once reminded 


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rita thirty plants of the true S, palustris in what I have no doubt 
a native station. It is a relic, probably, of a paludal vegetation 
‘dich drainage and cultivation have nearly or are Mt hesitate, 
for obvious reasons, to localise it precisely —_G. Ciarmex Druce. 
YGALA oxyPTERA Reichb. mv 8S. Han ge el s. Linton 
and sayeall’ met with this plant on May 8rd, between Holiday and 
Sway. It is recorded for Wight and N. Hants. We also pg 
Eriophorum grec ee at SReewet which appears to be a 
station for it.— rp 8. Mar 
UBUS SPECTABILIS NATURALIZED. Lie it worth while warning the 
young botanists coming on, or to come on, that Rubus spectabilis 
Pursh is not really a native plant? In a wood near Hythe (Sand- 
mo 


ling), Kent, s a d ince, it was even 
commonly diffused rag ys the wood than R. Ideus. How i 
got there I do not know; it may have been planted as cover for 


game, or for the sake of its feats as food for pheasants, or it may 
have been thrown out originally with garden refuse, or sown by 
i There is, however, no garden very near at and. The 


n.—Max 

ONICERA ae ww West Kent (p. 158). — On May 23rd 
Capt. Wolley Dod kindly took me to his station for this were! 
which was already past the prime of its flowering. I am quite o 
his opinion as to its not having : 
prima facie objection to its ren a true nati 

ut cjmen occurs there. No introduced plant wai 

excepting some larches lower down the hill, with which it had 


184 THE NAIADACER OF NORTH AMERICA. 


clearly no connection. The continental distribution (chiefly southern 
and south-eastern) is, however hat unf. ble to the theory 
of its indigenousness.—Epwarp 8. MarsHatu. 

Evrnors1a Esura 1x Bucxs.—Through the kindness of Mr. 
Stanton and Mr. Tufnail, I was informed last year that a Huphorbia 


’ 


cultivated in gardens. The figure in F. Bot. is fairly good, but 
badly coloured, and the cusps of the glands drawn so as to represent 
them below the gland. In the reproduced plate in Syme’s FL. Bot. 
they have almost disappeared, and the gland is represented as 
obovate, thus giving a wrong impression.—G. C, Drucr. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


The Naiadacea of North America. By Tuomas Morone. (Memoirs 
of the Torrey Botanical Club.)” Issued March 15th, 1898. 
Price 2 dollars, 


confined to North America, a claim which cannot be supported with 
cases the separating characters would not hold good 


€ may note some of these omissions. ‘P. natans Li. occurs in 
Central America (Hemsley). No mention is made of P. plantayineus 
Du Croz var. Jamaicensis Grisebach (#1. W. Indies), which occurs 
also in St. Domingo! and Hog Island! (Bahamas). P. occidentalis 
Sieber (= P, Jfluitans Griseb.) is omitted ; it occurs in Porto Rico! 
St. Domingo | Jamaica | Martinique! and Cuba! PP. Claytonit 
Tuck. occurs also in Jamaica! and Porto Rico (Sintenis!); the 


THE NAIADACEE OF NORTH AMERICA. 185 


difficulty as to the name this ought to bear will, we think, be 
disposed of by calling it P. epihydrum Rafinesque 1808). 

‘ ong is wise in retaining Tuckerman’s P. Lonchites for the 
present ; there is yet a difficulty as to this, and two or three of the 
forms of P. fluitans. It should be given for Porto Rica and Antigua. 
We do not think Dr. Morong has done well by making P. Faxoni a 
species ; some of the specimens are really rank Poe but P. Lonchites, 
others may be hybrids. P. heterophylius occurs in Greenland! an 


Arctic America, 56°! P. a ana ws (Zizit Roth.) occurs in 
Cuba (IWright!). To the cate bution of P. lucens L. may be 
added Florida! Jamaica, Cuba ike ! and Texas 


. per- 
foliatus L. also occurs in St. icin! P. crispus L. is considered an 


men in 
D3 believe specimens for Central China (Dr. Henry!) belong to 
P, Hillii Morong. Unfortunately there is no fruit on Dr. Henry’s 
specimens, but in all else they seem identical. 
Dr. Morong de P. foliosus = P. pauciflorus Pursh) as 
td Cu to N. America, but it has (besides occurring in Porto Rico! 
d )a 


a 


currents ... . strike the erie ay group (Sandwich Isles) from 
the north- west, bringing huge pine logs from Oregon.” Judging 
from the account of the bird- life of these islands, } they could have 
little to do with the transportation of an aquatic plant. Perhaps 
the Brazilian specimens named ‘‘pauciflorus"’ may really be tenwi- 
florus Philippi? The var. californicus of this occurs also i 
Mexico ! 

On page 41 Dr. Morong introduces a form of nomenclature a 
seems to us much to be condemned. He raises P. pusi . var. 
major Fries to specific rank as ‘‘ P. major ae reat os At while 

) 


P. Friesii Ruprecht! We think there is a prior authority for the 
reducti P. panormitanus Biv. to a variety. P. pusillus should 
ha 


P. heterophyllus, F). Paris, 1790” ; but here Pentagna Inst. vol. ii. 
289 (1787), _— mes been ig ed. Dr. Morong has no Segre 
record for P.h 


* Wallace, Island Life, 2nd ed. p. 3 
+ Brigham in Proce. ge Dee, of ee Hist. p. 12, 1868. 


t Wallace, l.c. pp. 313 


186 THE JOURNAL OF THE KEW GUILD. 


L. should be added Greenland! St. Lucia! Guatemala! Panama! 
and Brit. Honduras!. 
page 52, Dr. Morong raises ‘‘ P. pectinatus ? latifolius Rob- 

bins”’ to specific rank, but this is untenable, ‘ i 
overlooked the prior var. latifolius of Meyer (Chlor. Hann. (1886) ). 

here is a specimen of this rare form in the Brit. Mus. Herb. from 
‘Springs, Huachanca Mountains, Sept. 1882, J. G. Lemmon and 
wife.” 


” 


Dr. Morong has overlooked the record of Prof. Macoun as to 
P, Robbinsti “ fruiting in the Somas River at Albania, on the west 


P. K. ‘* Mexico’; nor of P. 
vaginatus Turez. ‘‘ Saskatchewan, Bourgeau, 1858” (Kihiman in Bot. 
Notiser); it also oceurs at Buffalo Lake, lat. 56°, Macoun ! 

References to old American authors are almost wanting; and 
no list is given of the undecided published names. The fifty plates 


between the various species. This notice is now too long to allow o 
entering into the specific rank of some of the forms raised to species 
by Dr. Morong. Artuur Bennett. 


The Journal of the Kew Guild, an Association of Kew Gardeners, past 
and present. May, 1898. 8vo, pp. 57. 

Tue idea of forming a Gild for Kew gardeners, past and 

present, 1s an excellent one, and can hardly fail to commend itself 

not only to those for whom it is more especially intended, but to 


whom a not very pleasing portrait appears as the frontispiece to the 
Journal, has done well to encourage the formation of the Kew Gild. 


or its Journ 

From the Journal (which is to be issued annually on the Ist of 
May), we learn particulars of the numerous opportunities for 
: ; 


out and revised by the lecturers. There is a Mutual Improvement 
Society, now twenty years old, which meets weekly in the Garden 


{HE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA, 187 


Library during six winter months, for ave and discussion of 
_ rosnsisolod with gardening. There is also a “ eee sot oer 
os : ‘s 


Among the contents of the Journal are letters ie celia men 
at home and abroad, including some interesting if rather trivial 
‘«‘ Reminiscences of Kew” by Mr. Hemsley. The List of ‘ Living 
Past Kewites” tells more forcibly than any narration could do of 
the widespread influence of Kew, and of the various excellent posts 
which are open to a gardener who sticks to his work and uses his 
arate We hope that some day the Jorhat gn pagent us a 
list of those who have died; such a list would contain 
at least as diseeiuibet in the annals of botany and “hortoulbere 
as any of those now livin 

The ‘Garden Notes” seem to us the weakest part of the Journal. 
We are glad to learn that ‘‘ Mr. Nicholson is preparing a catalogue 
of the hardy ligneous plants cultivated in Kew, ’ but we should 
have been more pleased with some definite announcement as to the 


publication of the Guide to the Gard absence of which is a 
serious drawback to the intelligent 5 Lebaron of them - 
sidering the energy displayed at Kew in so many meer it is to 


y 
be phage that this important adjunct to the usefulness of the 


The Ferns of South Africa. By Tuomas R. Sur, F.R.H.S. London: 
Wesley. 8vo, pp. iv, 275. 159 plates. Price £1 1s. Od. 

x are glad that Mr. Sim has given us a comprehensive hand- 
book of South en Ferns, the usefulness of which we suggested 
when noticing (Journ. Bot. 1891, 253) his Ferns of Kaffraria. That 

k may 1 


m has evidently aimed at producing a book which shall be 
asat vc the intelligent are and at the sg time acceptable 


Sim seems to ‘be aware 0 
The peng oer are full, and evidently for the most part based 
upon ample material. We are glad to find that Mr. Sim has 
Feeds ‘i ihe _apecis - key which he has ihe stad for the 


upon the a Abts who is also the illustrator of the work. The local 
distribution is carefully worked out, an the synonymy is given 
very fully, although we occasionally doubt whether the correct (i.e. 
the oldest) name has been retained. The plan of placing a period 
between the name and the authority—thus, ‘ ‘Pteris Buchanani. 


188 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Baker MSS.”—although not unknown, is unusual and undesirable : 
and such a name as this, taken at ran m, leaves us in doubt 
whether this plant has actually been described before, although Mr. 
Sim cites the name from two lists. 

There are interesting facts scattered up and down the pages, such 
as the occurrence of the New Zealand and Australian Pteris tremula 
at Natal as an escape from cultivation. The book is well printed, 
although misprints are somewhat frequent: and Mr. Sim has 
evidently known how to utilise the opportunities which he possesses 
as Curator of the Botanic Gardens at King William’s Town. 


Le Thé. Botanique et Culture, Falsifications et richesse en Caféine 
des différentes espéces. Par Antoine Brirrix. Avec 27 figures. 
Paris: J. B. Bailliére et Fils, 1892. 


n 
chapters on the chemistry of the tea-plant are the most striking 
and original portions of the book, and the portions for which it will 
probably commend itself, i ae ee 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


‘ Bot. papelragonsey pair oar — VY. von Borbas, Euphrasia 
ransiens Borb., sp.n. — (No, - J. G. O. Tepper, ‘Flora of 
Roebuck Bay, N.W. Australia,’ 7 ssid 

Bot. Gazette (March 20).—J, E, Humphrey, ‘ Monilia Sructigena’ 
i Plate). le L. Russell, « Non-parasitic Bacteria in Vegetable 


issue.’ — F. B, Maxwell, « Comparative Study of Roots of Ranun- 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 189 


Oak’ (1 Cee) — et 15). R. Thaxter, ‘ Phallogaster saccatus’ 


(1 plate).—E. M. Fisher, ‘The genu 8 Cesalpinia.’—D.T. MacDougal, 
: Tendrils of Pasion cerulea’ (1 plate). — C. MacMillan, ‘ Limi- 
tation of the term ‘‘spore.’’’ — M. E. Meads, ‘ Variation in Ery- 


poten (1 plate). — F, H. Knowlton, ‘New fossil Chara’ (¢. 
Sta 

ps oe gazine (Tokio).—(Mar. 10). R. Yatabe, Tricyrtis nana, 
Sp. 

Bot. Notiser 0 3).—J. R. Jungner, ‘Om regnblad, daggblad, 


och snéblad’ (1 plate).—A. Y. Grevillius, ‘Om vegetations forhall- 
andena pi de genom siinkningarne aren 1882 och 1886 nybildade 
. fog: eae a : 


skiren i Hjelmare H. strom, ‘Om s forntida ut- 
redning i Sverige.’ — 8. Murbeck, ‘ Pulmonaria angustifolia L. x 
officinalis Li. = obscura Dumort Me oe Ker Arnell, 


spra 

Aa a 4g (pt. 5: May 16). — G. Hieronymus, ‘Ueber die 
Organisation der yooshremaggenas eis: — H. Solms-Laubach, 
‘Ueber die Press Se: die Herr G. Eisen zu San Francisco an 
den Smyrnafeigen gemacht hat.’ — J. C. Konin gsberger, ‘ Kine 
anatomische Higenthiimlichkeit einiger Rheum-Arten.’ 

Bulletin de U Herbier Boissier (No. 4).—J. Briquet, ‘ Les Méthodes 
poe applicables ar Pe yiieen de floristique’ (1 plate).— 
F. 


é recueillies en Anatolie et dans l’Arménie Turque.’ 
—H. Goletédat. ‘Kin Be ctr zur eased Charakteristik und 
der Systematik der Rubiaceen.’— R. Chodat & O. Malinesco, 


‘Polymorphisme du Seonsdbasmts oes Ase pintshe — R. Chodat & 
C. Roulet, * Le genre Hewittia.’ — - B.C hodat et C. Rodrigue, ‘ Le 


Flore de la Transcaucasie.’ ao ft; Buser, ‘ Notice Pirenahiavn sur 
Louis Favrat’ (1827-93).—B. D. Jackson, ‘ Bibliographical Notes.’ 
—N. Pato pomee ; oe Champignons asiatiques.’—J. Miiller, 
‘Lichenes Scot 


Bull. Soe Bas ce ance (XXXiX., Sas oe rendus, 6: (May 1).— 
G. Gandoger, * Marillea Orvillei.’ Heckel, ‘Sexualité du 
Ceratonia Siliqua.’ — E. Roze, ‘ Fécondation du Najas major et du 


Ceratophyllum pia —_G. Bonn ier, ‘ Renflement moteur des 
Sensitives.” — W. Russell, ‘ Pistille bi-carpellé de Haricot.’ — E. 
Prillieux, ipoiegege des feuilles d’Millets malades.’ ss 


Hue, ‘Lichens des Gréves de la boa — KE. Mer, ‘La 
défoliation Pi brah ches basses d’Fpicea.” — L. Guignard, ‘Du 
tégument séminale chez les Crueifares.’ — D. Clos, Questions 
d’orthographe et de priorité.’ — G. Bonnier, ‘ Sur la ssion 


pre 
transmise a travers les tiges.’ — P. Fliche, ‘ Vaccinium Myrtillus 
var. leucocar sh 
Bull. Torrey Bon: Club as —N. L. Britton, Rusby’s §. 
American Phas (contd). — D, H, Campbell, ‘Development of 


190 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


Sporocarp of Pilularia americana’ (1 pl.). —H. W. Conn, ‘Free . 
Nitrogen Assimilation by Plants.’ — A. F. Foerste, ‘ Casting-off of 
Tips of Branches’ (2 plates).—A. Hollick, ‘ New Fossil Palm from 
Long Island’ (Serenopsis, gen. nov.: 1 plate). 

Erythea (May).—T. Howell, ‘ New Plants of the Pacific Coast.’ 
—M. A. Howe, ‘Two Californian Cryptogams.’ — E. L. Greene, 
‘ Corrections in Nomenclature.’—H. Baillon, ‘On Generic Nomen- 
clature.’ 


Gardeners’ Chronicle (Ap. 29).— Galanthus Ikaria Baker, Fritil- 
laria Whittallii Baker, Scilla lewcophylla Baker, spp. nn. — (May 6 

ulipa concinna Baker, Fucharis Lowii Baker, Fritillaria citrina 
Baker, spp. nn. — (May 18). Scilla Buchanani Baker, Richardia 
Lutwychei N. HE. Br., spp. nn. 

Journal de Botanique (May 1, 16). — E. Bonnet, ‘Plantes de 
Tunisie.’ — E. Bescherelle, ‘ Hepatiques de Guadeloupe et Mar- 
tinique.’ — (May 1). P. Vuillemin, ‘ Sur les affinités des Basidio- 
mycetes.’ — (May 16). G. de Lagerheim, ‘Sur une Cypéracée 
entomophile’ (Dichronema ciliata Vahl.). 

Journ. Linn. Soc, (xxix., No. 201: May 15). — C. T. Druery, 
‘An Aposporous Lastrea’ (1 plate). — G. Gammie, ‘Sikkim Tree- 
Ferns.’ — G. Henslow, ‘ Theoretical Origin of Endogens from 
Exogens.’—A. Lister, ‘ Division of Nuclei in Mycetozoa ’ (2 plates). 


aceen.’ — IL, Adamovic, ‘Neue Beitrage zur Flora von Siidost- 
serbien.’ — Zimmeter, ‘ Aquilegia Kinseleana & A. thalictrifolia,’— 
J. Murr, ‘ Zur Flora von Nordtirol.’ 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


: 7 
— » in our fransactions, a paper on the structure of the stem in 
aryophyllee and Plumbaginee, illustrated with plates drawn by 
yourself; and in 1862 you contributed to the Natural History Review 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 191 


@ memoir on the structure of the stem in Dicotyledons, with a 
cri set smog ad of the subject. Then, in your series of eighteen 
paper e Journal and six in the Transactions of this Society, 
be pi to Systematic, Morphological, and Geographical 


the Hamamelidea, and the Olacinee, your ae talents ogee 
you to illustrate beautifully and accurately these memoirs 

second point I would mention is the high axotliediie of this wieks 
The investigations of more recent workers have confirmed, almost 


and elsewhere, notably in the Jcones Plantarum, which you have 
now edited for three years wholly yourself. Thus also, in 1862, 
when geologists were discussing the Atlantis hypothesis, you showed 
in your paper in the Natural History Review that the botanical 
evidence was against that hypothesis, but that a close connection 
existed between the Flora of Tertiary Central Europe and the 
existing Floras of Japan and the United States. The subsequent 
progress of a discoveries has ae oved the soundness of the 


it is enshrined in the Kew Herbarium, where it has contributed 
largely to Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum, and to numerous 
memoirs which have been prepared wholly or in part at Kew. The 
last ge I need touch upon is your educational work. Your 


Lessons in Botany is the most useful elementary book we have; 
your “Bhaivadione oe ag Natural Orders and your Guides to the 
M at Kew have been eminently useful in 


in the see chair. With every St ih, I hand you the 
Gold Medal of the Society. r 
“Tue Russian Thistle” is the name by which Salsola Kali var. 


the pest, pointing out clearly and ae its modes of distribution 

and the conditions affecting its growth, and suggesting remedies 

for its ecg tion. ‘Place a Russian thistle in each school- 
of t 


they find it as they would kill a rattlesnake,” Two plates ac- 
company the repo 


ety rae 6 ete, Mee, So Se are! 


192 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


y 
fined to his house for some years by ill-health, he was probably 
known to but few of our younger botanists. But few of those who 
knew him in his vigour, and none of those who were privileged to 
join him in botanical excursions, will forget the indomitabl 


spare and emaciated form, and the extreme abstemiousness of his 
habits. The present writer has still a lively recollection of the tax on 
Ww 


Tae Kew Bulletin has begun to appear again, a double number, 
for February and March, having made its appearance towards th 
end of May. r. Rolfe describes some new Orchids, but there is 
nothing else of botanical interest in the number. i 
regretted that publications in which new species are described 

ead, 


should be dated in a manner go calculated to mis 


, 
names derived from vernacular names, proper names, and old 


rangula.” We do not imagine that these proposals will meet with 
much acceptance among botanists, nor can we see that any benefit 
could arise from their adoption. 


flower. This « only ewe lamb’ is the Arisaema fimb I 

riata. Wehave 
seen plenty of better orchids, but in orchids quaintness counts for 
more than beauty, and the Ari saema, &¢., is not devoid of that.” 


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RMorgan lith aferPhoto, 


Production of Tubers inside a Potato 


198 


PRODUCTION OF TUBERS WITHIN THE POTATO. 
By A. B. Renvtez, M.A., F.L.S. 
(Puate 336.) 


In the Gardeners’ Chronicle of January 22nd, 1870, is a short 
note on the anomalous production of young tubers or shoots in the 


truded. 
No certain explanation of the origin of these internal shoots is 
given in any of the above notes, bu e Gardeners’ Chronic 
suggests as the most probable one, the formation of adventitious 


Having received from Mr. Carling, of Norwich, a specimen 
of a potato in the state in question, I thought it would be of 
interest to ascertain the real origin of these ‘sintrasomatal” shoots. 

; ‘ h 


In t 
the rind was splitting in several places, the clefts increased in width, 
and soon little potatoes appeared throug the apertures. This 
went on for some weeks, and when given to me the potato had the 


tomose (fig. C). The shoot is very narrow at its point of origin, 
put rapidly widens out, and begins at once to give off roots and 


* Revue Horticole, 1879, p. 397. 


Journat or Borany.—-Vow. 31, [Jury, 1898.) ) 


194 PRODUCTION OF TUBERS WITHIN THE POTATO, 


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bearing shoots that it continues even when roots are useless. 


ntion to a case somewhat 
parallel physiologically, where supply of soluble food-material goes 
on after the necessity for it has ceased as far as the plant is con- 
cerned. e Indians of Mexico have discovered and use it for 
their own convenience. They cut off the inflorescence of the Agare 


n 
wound into a sort of basin. Of course a large supply of soluble 
carbohydrate (sugar) was necessary for the very active metabolism 
and growth going on in the huge opening inflorescence. This 

i the 


by the Indians and fermented to make a drink. This goes on until 

the plant has exhausted the large quantities of starch which it 

had stored in ee sores with a view to flowering and fruiting. 
es. 


There is one other point worthy of mention as regards the 
relation between the two generations of tubers. In a paper entitled * 


example of an internal wound found in a kind of dry-rot of the 
potato, and induced through penetration by a parasite. The pene- 


* Pringsheim’s Jahrbuch, Ba. xii. p- 138, 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 195 


tration starts at the eyes; those nearest the diseased spot decay, and 
thence, mostly without perceptible alteration on the exterior, the 
disease passes inwards an becomes localised in pcm parts of the 


ich are ned the youn 
tubers, singly or often massed together in clusters, have their walls 
suberised, while the surface of the penetrating rp and tubers is 
protected in the same way. This occurs not only where, through 
formation of a a the interior becomes e spopd but right in the 


the former, with its young tubers, woh hoe rise 0 a mebllbel n pro- 
ducing layers of periderm, in the latter we find simply suberi ssc 


may be asked why the adventitious buds at their formation 
should not break out and grow freely in the air, rather than force 
their way through a resistent tissue. But we can understand that, 
dealing as we are here with shoots, which in the natural order of 


ESCRI Rings oF eae 336.—A. An old potato bringing forth young tubers 


origin at the = of an aérial shoot = indicated at x; «/ is near ns ae of 
another shoot. ©. Longitudinal section of the origin of an intraso: 
(a) ah the — of an aérial shoot (0d), at ing the arrangement of ae Lahtle 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 
By Epwarp F. Seite Ach: anp Wm. R. Linton, M.A. 
(Concluded from p. 182.) 
eustales, n.sp. A plant gathered in Glen Derry, 
8. nye 1889, stood alone for some time, the eR ne — too 


sexfty to deal with. No name was even suggested. Dr. berg, 
to whom it was sent, observed on it, “Species pulchra, bene ut 


Perth, viz., on Meall Ghaordie, on the Glen Lyon side, and on 

Meall-na-Saone, 0 n rocky sides of the Allt Dubh Galair, of a plant 

which was pss found to be practically identical with the 

Glen Derry form. The latter, probably from growing on granite, 
0 2 


196 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


has a blacker, more glandular involucre, and a more hairy upper 
surface of the leaf. ‘The Derry plant grew on warm shingle under 
a southern exposure, a circumstance quite sufficient to account for 
the greater hairiness of the leaf. The Perthshire gatherings were 


denticulate or subentire. Petiole thinly hairy, channelled, with 
midrib inclined to turn red. Stem-leaf petioled, similar to radical, 
denticulate; petiole winged, almost -amplexicaul. Heads few, 

rate in size, on very floccose peduncles, which are usually 


Involucre ovate-obconic in flower, ovoid-conic r 

owering, very floccose, clothed with numerous rather short black 
based hairs some very unequal glandular hairs. Phyllaries 
becoming broader below as they mature, narrow] 


half; stem 1-2 ft. high, floceose and with bulbous-based hairs, 

specially in the upper part, bearing a closely aggregated corymbose 

panicle of : to many heads; peduncles floccose, with black-based 
e 


panicle of neat dark heads, and the somewhat leafy stem, are the 
more obvious distinguishing features of this plant. It was named 
H. cesium Fr. by Dr. Boswe ries’ Epicrisis contains a remark 
under H. cesium on a plant from “« Orney,” sent by Mr, Backhouse, 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 197 


which probably refers to this. Dr. Lindeberg said of it, ‘ Not 

know n to me, not known i ms ee ae : 
‘* Species yore inter vulgata.”’ Mr. Backhouse, in a letter to 

Hanbury, said ‘ Unless an note form of vulgatum, which I sus- 


on account of the re of stem-leaves, we incline to place this 
plant between H. eustales and H. Farrense, = group being already 
pointed out by Dr. Rarel and Dr. Lindeber. 

. Farrense F. J. Hanbury. Wood 8. of “Braemar, *§. Abe 
deen ; we have also specimens from the R. Clunie, Braemar, Ng 
are no doubt this species. Clova Valley, 14 miles below the Hotel, 

*Forfar; specimen confirmed by Mr. F. J. ‘Hanbury. 
H., silvaticum (L.) Almq,., pokes wie Dahlst. (Hier. Kas. 
Fasc. iv. No. 61). Glen Doll, For Entered here under H. sil- 
ha 


dentate, with large spreading delick? ietanistahs eeth, sometimes 
equalling half the brea, dth of the bl ate e. — een flexuous, 


a 

w, inner acutely acuminate, glandular almost to tip. 
tigaias with a hee scattered deciduous hairs about the tip. Style 
livid. Pappus pure white. This description is drawn from Dahl- 


A form of large size, with very glandular heads and peduncles, and 
in this differing greatly from ordinary H. vulgatum, has been met 
with in Somerset, at Cheddar; Stroud, in West Gloucestershire ; 
at Sellack, Herefordshire (by Rev. A. Ley, as H. orarium); in Glyn 
— Glamorgan ; in Carnarvonshire, on the Great Orme’s ene 
in other localities; in ghee Derbyshire; and also 

Alstonficld (by the Rev. W. H. Purchas); which would a coe ie 

to be the limestone Sons of the very ; aandslee plant 
from Sisley, “Brailaford, “neg ergs 8. Derbyshire, — M. 
Arvet-Touvet determined i 1 as coming under the var. scia- 


198 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


by one of us in 1874, as identical with Mr. Melvill’s Prestwich 
H, diaphanum Fr. Both stations happen to be within short range 


H. dia 
nell, sent through the Watson B. E.C. as H. orarium. Festiniog, 


organ. 

H. diaphanoides Lindeb., var. apiculatum, Linton, n. var. 
plant was noticed on the Unich Water above Loch Lee, Forfar, in 
1889, which was sent after a time through Mr. Hanbury t 
Lindeberg, but failed to receive a name. Cultivation has, however, 
brought out (what we had a suspicion of before) a clear affinity with 
H. diaphanoides. The wild specimens bear much resemblance to 
H. zetlandicum Beeby, differing chiefly in the leaves; and, in fact, 
the var. apiculatum is a connecting link between these two species. 
It differs from H. diaphanoides, the leaves of which are of a dull, 
often cesious green, in having fresh green leaves, more cuneate at 
the base, and more blunt and apiculate, the upper part of the leaf 


covered with bulbous-based hairs. On the whole, it has the look of 

a somewhat refined alpine or northern variety of H. diaphanoides. 
H1. sparsifolium Lindeb. Sent us unnamed by Lieut.-Col. Rim- 

ington, from R. Creed, Stornoway, Lewis, *Outer Hebrides. Here 


{ T., var 
confertum Lindeb., a plant for which, by Mr. Hanbury’s directions, 
we were searching. This latter form has leaves rather crowded 


BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 199 


describes, and that Lindeberg’s specimens (Hi. Scand. Eas, 141- 
145) show; , of our specimens are rather 


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H. gothicum var. pseudo-norvegicum. 
H. Friesii Hn. (H. gothicum Fries, Backh.) Berriedale cliffs, 


H. Friesii Hn., var. basifolium Lindeb. Clova Valley, *Forfar. 
Glen Lyon, *Mid-Perth, not far from Fortingal. Mr. Hanbury has 


D 
naming of the plant; but he unites with it plants gathered by Mr. 
Miller, Mr. A. Somerville, and himself, which after examination we 
consider are not all good for var. basifolium; and remarks that after 
five years’ a of this form it tends to revert to the type. 


Clova plant has a strong rosette of 4-8 ovate-oblong to ovate- 
acuminate root-leaves, and the stem-leaves at once tailing off in 


specimens, from Braemar, also approaches our Clova plant, but in 


lowest part of the stem ; 1 
out any suggestion of its being var. basifolium having been made by 
him. We have stated the matter thus fully to show that this 
variety of Lindeberg’s is still free from the charge of reverting to 
type in cultivation. 

H. Friesii Hn., var. latifolium Backh. Assuming Backhouse’s 
variety to be the broad-leaved Clova form (which we have had in culti- 
vation since 1887, and which is considered by Mr. Hanbury rightly 


200 BRITISH HAWKWEEDS. 


named), we can report this from *Skye, in the neighbourhood of 
Uig, with the type; and from Mid-Perth, near Fortingal, where it 
was scarce. In both these the style is pure yellow, a point insisted 


ant we detected in 1889, and then ca 
var. latifolium. This after cultivation (at Shirley) we have shown 


” be 
the plant which Backhouse had in view? Such a confusion seems 
not at all impossible between two plants which are so very closely 
allied. At the same time it must be admitted that good gothicum 
latifolium has been gathered (viz., Fi i 
accepted by the late Mr. Backhouse) in the very district where 
H. scoticum is most prevalent. 

We would mention at this point that in 1890 we made careful 
search through Hareheadwood, near Selkirk, for the purpose of 
seeing if H. juranum Fr. could be found there. As a result of our 
search, we are fairly satisfied that it does not grow in the wood now. 

A, strictum Fr. Vaternish Cliffs, and cliff S. of Uig, *Skye ; 
searce. 

H. strictum Fr., var. subcrocatum Linton, n. var. Growing on 
rocks in the bottom of the gorge below the Grey Mare’s Tail; also 
up the Spoon Burn; near Moffat, Dumfriesshire. By the R. Yar- 
row, near Selkirk, Selkirkshire. This we believed to be H. strictum 
Fr. at first, but could get only a qualified assent to our view. Dr. 
Lindeberg remarked on it, “H. strictum quoad herbam, H. cro- 
catum quoad capitula.” It differs from the type in the total 
absence of any hair or pubescence from the upper part of the 


) the R. Rothay, 
very probable that a plant gathered near Bethesda, Carnarvonshire, 
by one of us in bud, i i 


. 


H. crocatum Fr., var. angustatum Fr. (H. an ustum Lindeb.). 
Braemar, S. Aberdeen ( 5 


ee reticulatum Lindeb. (H. crocatum Fr., var. reticulatum 
Lindeb.). We identify specimens we gathered in former years by 


BRITISH HAWEWEEDS. 201 


the R. Clunie, Braemar, *S. err with this — Also a 
plant by the Naver, Bettyhill, *W. Sutherland, fine and 
aypices; collected by us in 1888; and by the R. Gada fk aes, 
*Outer Hebrides, gathered and sent unnamed by Col. J. W. 
nigtucee 
H. bade eale Fr., var. virgultorum (Jord.). Wallis Down, Dorset. 
Named for us by M. Arvet-Touvet. This variety has a clean-cut 
look, having all the stem-leaves subsimilar, ovate-lanceolate to 
ovate-acuminate, coriaceous, subglabrous on the upper surface; 
stem rather thinly hairy; phyllaries drying a jak olive-green. 
boreale Fr., var. Herviert Arv.-Touvet (Hervier, Hier. Has. 
Soc. Dauph. ii. 376). Lytchett Minster; and Verwood; _Dorset. 
exa 


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ones subglabrous above; involucres drying a dull greenish-black. 
mbellatum var. coronopifolium Fr. Wallis Down, and Lyt- 
chett Minwies Dorset (specimens of these were sent to M. Arvet- 
Touvet labelled by one of us as this variety, and confirmed by him, 
the Wallis Down form of the plant emphatically); also near 
Queen’s Wood, Horton, in the same county; between Mere and 
Mere Down, Wilts; near Blackslough, Somerset. A form from 
ee near Witley, Surrey, collected in company with the Rev. 
. 8. Marshall, comes near coron seg oltion and may perhaps best 
- placed under it. The variety as Pag in this country has 
a close panicle, with rigid perive or suberect peduncles. The leaves, 
however, are the main character, by Fries ipti 


J h, of Bangor, at two stations on the Carnarvonshire 
coast, about fifteen miles apart, viz., Abersoch and Morfa Bychan, 

ich remin n ar. monticola Jordan, but seems to be 
so far u 8 lant is always dwarf in stature, 


var. curtum Linton. It aR besides in the neat few- 
flowered panicles of rather lar ov s, rather short peduncles 
somewhat spreading, broad oe outer phyllaries much reflexed 
at the tip, only those on the peduncle pees narrow ; the leaves 


- 


upper ones being often entire or nearly so. The style is pure yellow 
in the Abersoch plant, livid yellow at Morfa Bychan. Another 
plant from Carnarvonshire, gathered near eat in 1890 by one 
of us, perhaps ought to find its place under H. umbellatum as a 
variety, but is so ‘much off in the direction of the gothicum group 
that it may deserve specific rank. In cultivation it maintains its 
peculiarities; it stands over at present for further consideration. 

The following variety was accidentally omitted from its proper 
place in this list, the order of which has been very carefully con- 
sidered, in oS ee with Mr. Hanbury, and it is added here at 
the end of our pap 

H., stenolepis Lindeb., var. anguinum W.R. Linton. Basal leaves 


202 MARINE ALGE OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


erect or erect-patent, forming a rosette, ovate-oblong ; leaves and 
peice subglabrous, with slight marginal fringe. Petioles and stem 
with red; peduncles and bases of involucres 

sates and setose ; phyllaries with short black hairs and sete, 
long, formin aa cil-point in bud. The snake-like look of the 


seems best retained as a “eee under it. It grows in the higher 
parts of the hills about Moffat, Dumfriesshire. 


A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE MARINE ALG OF 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 


By Eruet S. Barron. 
(Concluded from p. 177.) 


CoRALLINE&, 
MEtosesia Mempranacua Lam. Cap e, Harvey. 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. W. Teiane, Mediterranean. Australia. 
AMPLEXIFRONS Harv. i Natal, Gueinzius. 

Geogr, Distr. W. Indie 

ii Lam. Natal Bay, Krauss, sub nomine M. verru- 
cata 
Geogr. Distr, eens. Atlantic. Australia! W. Indies. 
Pacific. Sanceet. 

M. IFORMIS ee utz. On Gelidium cartilagineum; Robben 
pee Boodle | Sea Point, Boodle! Port Alfred, Slavin! Cape, 


eae: Distr. Shores of Britain. Mediterranean. 
M. (Masroruora) srecticera Endl. et Dies. Port Natal, Péppig. 
Lirnopayiium uicnenorwss Phil. Algoa eles oe lon. 
Geogr. Distr. Atlantic. §. Pacific. Medite 
Rosan. = Mexosesta Patena Ho “y ¢ Has rv. On 


L. Pare O 
Gelidium cartilagineum ; Cape Agulhas Hohenack. | No. 237. Algoa 
Bay, Hb. Dickie | 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. New Zealand. 

Li. capense Rosan. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 236. 

LirotHamyion Brassica-rioripa Aresch. Algoa Bay, Bowerbank. 

L, porymorpaum Aresch. Algoa Bay, Bowerbank. 

Geogr. Distr. General. 

Mastoruora nypoteuca Harv. Port N atal, Gueinzius, 

M. Lamovrouxm Decne. Port Natal, Gueinzius! Krar 

Geogr. Distr. N. Pacific. didn Ocean. bhp alia. W. Indies. 

AMPHIROA ANCEPs Dene. e, fide Kiit 

Geogr. Distr. Mauritius, aati Nowfoik Island, W. Indies, 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 2038 


A. rirma Kitz. Cape, jide Kiitzing. Areschoug quotes this as 
‘* Vix Amphirow species.”’ 

A. muutiripa Kiitz. Cape, Lappe. 

A, CAPENSIS otis Table Bay, fide Ar eschoug. Cape Agulhas, 
Houhenack.! No. 248. The Hohenacker specimen in the British 
Museum is very fragmentary, and I am inclined to doubt the 
correctness ie the naming. 

A. 8 cuapia Kitz. Natal, Gueinzius. This is probably a 
species of Chsoeee um. 

OWERBANKEL Harv. Port Elizabeth, Spencer ! pulaee Bay, 
Bowerbank! Port Natal, Gueinzius. Cape, Hohenack. 
A. contracta Kitz. Cape, Lappe. 
A. msvotuta Kiitz. Cape, Lappe! 
. DuBia Kiitz. Cape, my, i 

Geogr. Distr. W. Indie 

A. exitis Harv. Kalk Bay, Boodle! Algoa Bay, Bowerbank. 
Cape, Hb. Dickie! 

Var. crasstuscuLa. Cap 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic Branly gi eee 

A. L OUXIANA smb (= CHErLosporum sp.). Cape, Capt. 
Car iohaok € in n Hb. ouro 

A, DILATATA tae "POA Elizabeth, Spencer! Natal, Gueinzius, 
Krauss. Cape, Bowerbank ! 

beat Distr. West Australia. West Indies. 

A. racKA Dene. Kalk Bay, Boodle! Cape Agulhas 
Hokenack. ‘  Noa.S 242, 248. Knysna, Boodle! Cape Recife, Craven! 
Algoa Bay, Bowerbank! Port Elizabeth, Spencer! Kei Mouth, 
Flanagan! Natal, Krauss! Pees 

Geogr. Distr. ‘Australia 
_ CHEILOSPORUM CULTRATUM be ch. Kalk Bay, F. Young! Boodle! 
Knysna, Boodle! Algoa Bay, aaa, Port Natal, Gueinzius. 

Geogr. Distr. Atlantic (Bra 

C. Sranceri Aresch. Port ele Gueinzius. 

C. sacirratum Aresch. see Bay, Bowerbank. Natal, Krauss. 

Geogr. Distr. Australia. 

C. ruapeniatum Aresch. Port Natal, Gueinzius. 

Arrnrocarpta patmata Aresch. Table Bay, Krauss. 

Var. —— J. Ag. Cape Agulhas, Hohenack.! No. 241. 

Geogr. Distr. Shores of Brazil. 

A. conymposa Aresch. ‘Table Bay, — Algoa eet Bower- 
bank, sub nomine Amphiroa corymbosa 

Geogr. Distr. Shores of America, fide Lamarck. 

A. capensis Aresch. Bay of Natal, Hb. Areschoug. 

aa racemosa Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

J. rnusens Lam. Natal, Gueinzius. —- Var. arricana Krauss. 
Natal, Krauss 
Geogr. Distr, General. 


204 MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOP. 


J. rastieiata Harv. Algoa Bay, Bowerbank. Cape, Hb. Dickie! 
Geogr. Distr. Australia 
J. rermepia Kiitz. Oe, Hohenack.! No. 6 

ve oleae Harv. Robben Island, | Port Natal, 


Gucine 
Ger. "Distr. Australia. 
J. apH@RENS Lam. Natal, Krauss. 


Gunde: Distr. Mediterranean ? 

— LoricaTa Kitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

C. 8B A Kiitz. Cape, fide — According to the plate, 
this is asd. a species of, Coralli 

C. ruasetnata Kiitz. (= aidan ?). Knysna, Boodle! 
Cape, Hohenack. ! me 586, 587. 


C. Cuvrerr Lamour. 7. t Natal ?, Gueinzius. 
Geogr. Distr, Australia. Tasmania. West Indies. 
C. comeHonemacea Kiitz. Cape, Zeyher. 

C. anceps Kiitz. Cape, fide Kiitzing. 

C. cartnata Kiitz. Cape, Lappe. 

Geogr. Distr. Warm Atlantic. 

C. rosza Aresch. Table Bay, Krauss. 

“ut Distr. Australia 


C. pmunirera Post. et Rupr. Cape Agulhas, Peas ! No. 588. 
The iieetisten of this number in the British Mus m Herbarium is 
so PEAS. that I must quote it on H er’s rte only. 


C. atis Linn, Table Bay, Natal Bay, Krauss. Cape, 
Hob, Trin. Coll. Dubl. “hikeah doubts the authenticity of all spe- 
cimens of this plant from the Cape. I have never seen any, and 
can therefore only quote these records. 

Geogr. Distr. Arctic Sea. North Atlantic. W. Indies. Medi- 
terranean. Black Sea 


ADDENDA. 
Prororuycem, 
MastigocoLeus TestaRuM Lagerh. Kalk Bay, A. Batters. 
Pumopuycem. 
CarpomiTRA cuyTrapHora Kiitz. British Kaffraria, Flanagan! 
Cape, Hb. Dickie 
Geogr. Distr. Australia, 
Fiorwex. 


Aristothamnion Tysoni, 
erectiuscula, alterne pinnatim ‘sort mposita sursum longe corticata, 
ramis ot Lapaeprags non divaricatis, apice corymboso-subglomeratis, 


MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 205 


as de — spherosporis inter ramellos corymbosos plurimis 
subaxi 

Hab. Ad. ge A Spei. In speciminibus Gigartine Radule 
J. Ag. a W. Tyson 
ra er named this species after Mr, W. Tyson, of Cape Town, 
who has sent me many interesting specimens of alge from the 
Cape of Good Hope. 

THysaNocLaDIA cortAcEA Harv. Natal, Ruperti! 

Geogr. Distr. Western Australia. 


attention to the land flora, and until the early part of this century 
there are not many records of alge from this region. The earliest 


specimens of Macrocystis Bi et . Ag. described by Petiver as 
‘«‘ Alga verrucosa capensis,’ of an Tri idea, and of an alga which is 
probably Pachymenia carnosa 

After these pre-Linnean collectors we have Drege, Krauss, 
Gueinzius, Ecklon, Zeyher and others, whose herbaria have un- 
fortunately been broken up and distributed, thus adding much to 
the difficulty of determining the presence or absence of certain 
species at the Cape. 

Tn later times we have collections made by Harvey, Senet 
a large proportion of the total number of species recorded from the 
Cape; and by Pappe, on whose specimens Kitzing fo Blinded many 
of his Cape species. large collection of alge was made in 
1889-90 by Mr. Leonard Boodle, and presented to the British 


Osea and others; there are also unnamed specimens of Cheto- 

morpha and Cladophora, but I prefer to leave the determination of 
these species to some expert in these difficult genera. At the 
present time the British Museum is receiving occasional supplies 
of material forwarded by Mr. Tyson, of Cape Town, collected by 
himself an her workers at different Hey along the coast. 
This list is therefore intended to show what has been already 
done as an aid to present gear and does me aim at being an 
exhaustive eapre e of the m ora 

The first, and indeed up zs the present ‘time the only, list of 
exclusively Cape alge is the Phycee Capenses of Areschoug, 


206 MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


published in 1851, which is based principally on the Krauss and 
Drege collections. The other records of alg from these shores 


phy ged according to De Toni’s 
Sylloge Algarum, vol. i. I am aware that in many respects it would 


have been better to adopt a classification more in accordance with 


north as 35° 50’, and this has naturally a marked effect on the 
é Ind : 


known to occur. It is necessary, therefore, to include all alge 
found south of 22° on the west coast of South Africa, and although 
there are not many records from this district as yet, I hope to 
receive supplies shortly from Port Nolloth, which’ will probably 
furnish interesting results. 

It may be remarked here that in the British Museum Herbarium 


F’, serratus L. and F, vesiculosus L., recorded by Ecklon, also bears 
out this fact. No locality is given, and one would therefore 
suppose that these forms grow on the west coast in the full sweep 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 207 


of the current from the south. It will be interesting to see, when 
this west gous oe is more carefully explored, how many more 
cold noc oce 
Th sg pes up a careful comparison of the marine floras of 
hae Western Australia, and Kerguelen Land with that of the 
Cape of Good Hope, and in some points the results are interesting 
and instructive. As would be expected, the number of genera 
common to the two regions is very high, for out of 141 genera 
existing at the Cape, 113 of these are represented i in Australia ; 
while out = the 429 species at the Cape, and the 1198 in Australia, 
only 95 common to the two “ac I expected that, by 
isolating fies the Australian flora thos era and species whieh 
occur on the western coast = hasidiay r shoele find a larger = 
portion of species common to this coast and the Cape. This 
however, not the case, and Le can only aes for it by the fact that 
many species occur in Western Australia which have not yet been 
recorded path there, but which are found and recorded from Port 


occur also in the Indian Ocean, a nigh Fes which must be decided on 


the publication of Mr. guenet s oh of Indian Ocean Algw. He has 
kindly allowed me to reproduce here his tables of a 
published in the Phycological ‘iad ; c 
parison of the marine floras of the Atlantic and iar Oceans 
with that of the Cape of Hope. In his paper (/. c.) he 
- _ sae with the subject, which therefore needs no further 


"Ob omparison of the Cape flora with that of Tristan d’Acunha 

shows that the latter has only three species which do not also occur 

t the Cape, and, of these, two are known only from there. The 
i He 


6 genera and 1 species in common. The small size of the flora, 
and the difference in latitude between these islands and the Cape, 
make it ——— to draw up a table of comparison between 
these two regions 

ere are some species common to the West Indies and the 
Cape, but these are not many; and as they are included in 
Murray’s comparison between the rye of the Cape and the warm 
Atlantic, I have not considered a special comparison with the go 
Indies necessary. Prof. Schmitz, of Greifswald, has most kindly se 

me for inspection a collection of Cape alge, made by Mr. Spichaus 


208 MARINE ALGH OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


at Cape Town, unfortunately too late to incorporate in the presen 
list ; I have, however, found no algx among them but those hitherto 
recorded from this pla 

Since publishing the beginning of this list, I have made a re- 
examination of two species recorded in it, i.e., Padina Pavonia 
Gaill. and Pleonosporium Borreri Ni aig. e former is a bad speci- 
men of Zonaria lobata Ag., and the latter is Halothamnion Harvey- 
anum J. Ag., the type specimen of which hag been kin y lent me 


e } th i 
Harv. The numbers of both genera and Species in the Cape 
table remain Lcasaieiaess unaltered. Aristothamnion Tysoni has not 
been included 


paring several critical species; and to Dr. Perceval Wright, who 
has most kindly sent me man y type specimens from the Harvey 
Herbarium for comparison with ioe in the British Museum. 


BrisuioGRapuy, 


Petiver. oo 1709. 
Turn ner.— Fuci suteee _ 


Bory.—Voyage of the Gonaille, 1828, 
. 721-742 


Suhr.—Flora, 1840, p- 257. 
Montagne.—Voyage of the Bonite, 1844-46. 
Montagne.—Voyage of Astrolabe and Zélée, 1845. 
Endlicher wnd Diesing.—Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 288, 
Krauss.— ora, 1846, p. 209 
Harvey. ze ereis Australis, 1847. 
gardh.—Species Algarum. Fucoider. 1848. 
Areschoug.—Phycesw Capenses. 1851 
Areschoug 9. —Phycex Nove, — —- ‘Reg. Soc. Sci. ser. iii. vol. i. 
pp. 829-372. Upsala, 
Kiitzing.—Tab. Phye., ~ Wloridew pa oreo 1858-69. 
J. Agardh.—Spee. Gen. e t Ord. Alg. 8-73. 


iekie.—Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. xiv, pp. 384, 886; vol. xv. pp. 40, 
; , 48, 47, 198. 
De Toni. —Sylloge Algarum, vol. i. 1889 
Foslie—Bulletin de L’ Herbier Boissier, vél. i. p. 91, 1893, 


-MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


209 


TOTALS ALGEH COMMON To | 
3 g z q Za isd 
2 | <8 | 2 | Ze [22] 2 3 [ede 
4 25 - a3. 19°) 222 Bea 
8 88 4 as [sel e°S fase 
3 é 3 a* 2° i 3 Ee 2 
ey 4 a Eu 4 
gd) 819) 819124981 sigs! gigs 
FLORIDER. S1OMPol| arts | #15 | &{5lals | &]dla 
Ceramie® ........ 61) 474 114 33 Be ee 8 4 7178) 4 51 104 56 
2 Late nm a 9730) 6] 13 5.) 187 31 PPsaee at a 
Gigartines ........ 10 | 28 7 | 42 6/18 7 876 St 6 | 6) 4 
Spyridies seas * Chee pe Pg FE Gon ee ag 3] ] 2 g BT is 
Dumontiacer...... Cpe 4S bo) ee ee ee 0 | ¢ ( 0 | 0} ¢ 
Areschougier...... Lj Os OA st 07 ( ( 0 | 0} ¢ 
Champiew ........ Sie a £4-ed ea ae 0 ] 3 1! ¢ 
a Acre 6).224 74 189 64 20 F 41:27 43 2.14 
1G ae 0s sia 2 3 2 4 { 2 ] 19] 1} ¢ 
Hildenbr sei i fa Ue ey ee We oe ER Be oO; 1 0 ( ( 
Porphyracer ...... 2) 64 2] 6 A) S 2 ‘ 
Spherococcoider ..| 4 | 63] 7| 13] 6 | 22 25% y § 
Delesseries ...... FG ee oe) yee al eg ber 3) cf oe § ( 
re arcane ee 6|.414 3] 6 Mi 8) 4 ( 10 ( 
Cheetangier ...... 2 2 2 1 
Gelidi Pechiawets) eke Dk 12 ee ? 
Hypneacezr ...... 2) 224.2 12 4} 1): : 
BOMGRIGH . 5.5 ce sees 4/12] 4) Gt % 21: 2 i 
Wrangeliew ...... 1 ee 1 Ori oro] { 
Chond eee eee 2 L 21 167-3 8] 1 6 ¢ E 
Lomentaries ...... a ee aa ] 11-344 0; 1 ] 0} ¢ 
Rhodomelew ......| 14 | 96] 15 | 48418 | 48] 9| 7 [LO) 3] 12 | 12] 8 J 
Coralli io + 4e4 9 48 6) 347 71.16 6/10 5 | 127 5 € 
Total..| 90 1482 95 i295 80 255 58 | 73 [5853 59 | 94 |46/34 
PHROPHYCER 
PUCROON u-. 5 ve cele A) 383.7) 2b) 47505 4) 77% 8 | 10] 3) 4 
Dictyotacew ...... 7\45] 4/21] 7/23] 4] of 4a 4] 9] 4): 
Splachnidiacer Ol 01.1) 19°06; 04 0; OFC @ OT Oot 
Ectocarp 1; 15 rE 5 2112 1 2 Biba A as 4 fa 
Sphacelariaces 21 ME 8 Oe ee ee te moe ed 
‘h aria 6 9 4 6 5 7 2 213) 3 gs Be Me 
Punctariacer...... tT) Pil Seer 4 ee eas a | or ot 
Arthrocladiacese 1; 82.0). 07 214.87 0) OF 0 G@ 1) 370% 
Sporochnacere RCCL a Sees (EL Oe We Se) Si 
Laminaries ...... O16) B19. 0 | 04 0) .0 oY 0}; OF 0 ¢ 
Weelisies® <. 05.2... reope ty ee Ll] hE | OT 17-0 1 ( 
Total..| 26 [125 | 28 | 76 | 24 |117 | 14 | 23 415211 16 | 29 13)14 
CHLOROPHYCES. 
Siphonem ......../ 23 | 99} 7 | 20716 | 72] 6| 7] 6 7] 16 | 2976 6 
Conferver ...... | @ i) een 3) 284 8) 305°3 1 813 8° 4) Isis 2 
UWes Picci BOT 41 E 21 iets) OT ae a) eas 
Total..| 32 199 | 14 | 54 | 26 (121 J 11 | 18 }11|15§ 22 | 46 [11)11 
PrororHycem ......| 14/51] 4) 47 9) 217 2) OF 2 OF 5} 442.0 
AGGREGATE ........|162 (859 141 429 [139 [514 | 85 114 [86/9103 173 172/59 
[Juny, 1893.] Pp 


Journan or Botany.—Vot. 81. 


MARINE ALG OF CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 


210 


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211 


REMINISCENCES OF ALPHONSE DECANDOLLE. 
By ©. Baron Crarke, F.R.S. 


You have asked me to supply some personal a of 
M. Alphonse 5 gre lle. I willingly send you all t an call 
to mind ; but t sda are only approximate, and thers a doubt- 
less other i oan due to imperfection of mem 

nly made the acquaintance of M. Alpho ches De Candolle i 
(or about) 1878, when I went to his house (the old family house in 
the Cathedral Square, Geneva) to do some botanic wor rk in his 

b i 


Prodromus rests, and from which the pao is drawn. 
remaining (much larger) portion of the herbarium is fear 
as a a oon neral herbarium—the natural orders in the DeCandollean 
seq 

T Nothing could exceed the kind attention which M. Alphonse 
DeCandolle paid me on my first entering his herbarium—I need 
hardly add, also on subsequent visits. He was always ready to 


in good order in m sked, ‘* Now, is there any way in 
hich I can assist in this work?” After a — work in 
June, he insisted (the weather being very fine) o y taking 


a botanic ramble in the neighbourhood of Geneva, ‘ena poo the 
curator of his herbarium to take me to me Southern Jura above 
Nantua. It was certainly botany i easy ; the curator led me 
before a bed of wild flowers, and expla ee “It wi on this very 


t vi reel and youneda ooking for his 
years, and getting through a large quality of literary seme fetes 
and correspondence ; and in a letter which he wrote me 
very few weeks before his death, he told me that he ‘eee his 
health, nearly emer” ay till about six or tik before his death, 
when he became w 

As regards all the ‘events of his life up to his seventies year, 
I can only give you imperfect recollections of what he told me in 
conversations. Were my memory good, I ought to be able to 
furnish a Sess cone biography thereou 
s but one DeCandolle family, at the time of the 
fotraetiens deltled ¢ ox ftv estate in France. Out of a numerous 
family of sons, three (placed in a monastery) became Protestants, 
and travelled in ee France advocating the principles of the 
Reformation. One of the three was killed in a riot raised against 
them, and the other ea then settled at Geneva. One of these two 
proved a successful man, and built the family house in the Cathedral 
P2 


912 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


Square, but left no descendants; from the other brother the great 
botanists are sprung. 

ot many years ago a French teacher in England (whose real 
name was not aristocratic) published his teaching books under the 
name of DeCandolle. ; honse DeCandolle immediately in- 
structed a London solicitor to take proceedings against the man 


opinion of an eminent counsel that there was in England no way 
of touching the French teacher. M. Alphonse DeCandolle was 
prejudiced in favour of everything English—even an English dinner 
—but h t in this matter of allowing one man to 
trade upon another man’s name he thought the English law 
defective. 


and enterprising tour for any person to take at that 


eriod. 
Some of the earlier volumes of the DeCandolle Prodromus were 
prepared at the «Petits Pierres,” a house about a mile and a half 


boat by way of exercise. 
M. Alphonse DeCandolle was justly proud of his father (Grand 
Cross of the Legion of Honour) and of his sons ; ha was most 
aristocratic-looking. I have met few men who to so great dignity 
of manner united so great kindness and consideration for others. 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ. 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 76.) 
y- Flores racemosi. 
ABUTILON RAcEMosuM Schlecht. in Linnea, xi. p. 867. Sida 
racemiflora Steud. Nom. ii. p, 579. 
ab. Mexico, nr. Tlalpuyahua, 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEA. 2138 


d. Flores axillares. 
* Species latissime distribute. 
. A. crispum Medic. Maly. p. 29 (1787) (oryspumt) 5 Sweet, 
ity ‘Brit. i . p. 58. A. albescens i Pl. Jungh. 
petiolare Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1858, p. 205. ri sessili- 
folium Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 113. ‘Sida crispa L. ; DC. Prod. 
i. P- 469. 8S. — Lam. Dict. i. p. 7. 8. filiformis Jacq. 
. Bot. ii. p. 28. SS. sessilis Vell. Fl. Flum. vii. t. 27. S. lasio- 
pote ain * aoe Hort. Berol. ii. p. 205. S. WES age 
Synop. ii. p. pra doe crispa St. Hil. Fl. . Mer 
94, B. nemoralis St. Hil. 1. ¢ . 195, t. xxxix. 
Hab. Tropical and on ‘Region 8. 
Var. imperbe Griseb. Fl. Brit. West Indies, p. 80. A. trichodum 
A. Rich. Fl, Cub. i. p. 55. A. imberbe Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 502. 
Sida imberbis DC. Prod. i. p- 469. S. trichoda Dietr. Synop. iv. 


Hab. Florida. West Indies! 
Sida sessiliflora Bot. Mag. t. 2857, is quoted by Dr. Schumann 
me the a of this plant. I have not seen the fruit. 
«A. veoLENs W. & A. Prod. i. p. 56; Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 
t. 2. "Sida Wrivoctens Roxb. Hort. Beng. P. 50. A. ‘farbinilien Mig. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 144, ex des 
ia! Malaya! ew Caledonia Isle of Pines! 
a, Beluchistan! Tropical Africa 
nintum Masters in Fl. Brit. Ind. p. oe A. indicum var. 
Mri Crtesh: Fl. Brit. West Indies, p.78. A. heterotrichum Hochst. 
in Herb. A. Kotschyt era in Webb Frag. Fl. Ath. p. 52. 
Sida hirta Lam.; DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 8. pilosa L’Herit. Stirp. 
30. 


Hab. India! Trop. Africa! West Indies! Central America ! 
sere Florida Peru! 
picum Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 54. A. — 
Moench, Meth, Supp. p. 205. A. asiaticwum W, & A. Prod. i. p. 5 
A. grandiflorum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 504. 4A. aureum Don in 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. iii. p. 80. A. tesicarium Sweet, l.c. A. leio- 
spermum Griseb. Fl. Brit. West gem p. 79. A. te or 


Prod. i. 471. 8S. vesicaria Cav. - DC. 1 <C 8. Siliekees Cav.; DC. 
l.c. S. orbiculata DC. s c. 3S. aurea Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1842. S. 
Doniana Dietr. Syn. iv 

Hab. Tropical and Bubteopical Regions. 

Var. atpipum. A. albidum Webb et Bert. Phyt. Canar. p. 39, 
t. 2. Sida canariensis Broussonet in herb. 8. albida Willd. ; DC. 
Prod. i. p. 471. 

Hab. sia Is. ! 

Var Suffrutex basi lignosus cinereus, foliis 
cordato- syatis irregulariter serratis, floribus axillaribus solitariis 
magnis, calyce externe cinereo ee albo-cinereo-velutino, petalis 
intense — carpellis i 

Hab. Angola. Gavahiinon: Welwitsch, No. 4944 ! 


214 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEA, 


Stem 4-5 ts high ; leaves 1-12 in. long, 1 in. to nearly 14 in. 
broad ; petals n. Ic 

This s plant is “alee allied to A. gr eee Don, l.c. 

Var. poputirotium W. & A. Prod. i. p. 56. A. al 
Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 58. Sida pala Lam. ; 

i p. 470. S. Beloere L'Herit. Stirp. i. p. 180. 8. Peta 
Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 

Hab. India! Malaya. 

47. A. rruticosum Guill. & Perr. a Pere nie 1, p. 73. A. micro- 
phyllum A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 70, t. 15. A. denticulatum Webb, 
FE. th. p. 51. Sida gracilis Rh Br. in - om a amoena 
Wall. Cat. 1848. S. Perrottetiana Dietr. Synop. i 

Hab. India! ‘Trop. Africa! Socotra! Arabia | cert 
ii 

eA. or ga — a Fl. Aith. p. 51. A. tomentosum 


W. e A. Prod. i. p. 56. A. glaweum Webb in Hook. Niger Flora, 
p. 109. A. aera Webb, Frag. Fl. Ath. p. 52. Sida glauca 
Cav. ; rod.i.p. 471. S§ hirta Wall. Cat. rg B partly. 8S. 


mutica Delile Fl. Aigypt. p. 60, n. 45, Ka re. Tee Hort. 
Beng. p. 50. S. pannosa v ee in Salt It. 8. polycarpa Chr. Sm. 
ex ast Ann. Bot. ii. 
- India! Gegicnt Alghonstn. Tropical Africa! Egypt! 
PetesEne! Arabia! Comoro Is.! Cape Verd Is. ! Queensland ! 
Var. PARVIFOLIA. Sida. rugosa R. Br. in herb. Caule stricto 
virgato, foliis parvis cordato-ovatis serratis, ee strictis 
versus apicem articulatis, carpellis angulatis Lag aaapeey 
Hab. Australia. Keppel Bay, R. Brown, No. 5 
The leaves of this plant are small (1-14 in. in oath the 
a are angled, and thickly covered with white hai 
9. A. astatioum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 608. A. hires 
Waa, Meth. Supp. p. 205. 4. ulbidum Hook. & Arn. Bot. 
Beechey, p. 278. Sida asiatica L.; DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 8. Hookeri 
Dietr. pynop. iv. p. 856. 
Ha ropics. 
50. A. TH on Medi, Maly. p. 28 (1787). = pubescens 
Moench. Meth. p. A. Avicenna Gaata. Fruct. ii. p. 251, 


- 470. . 854. 
Del. Insub. iii. p. 1. 9. tiliafolia Fisch. ; POC. Pro 
Europe. Mediterranean Region ! China Y Australia 
Naturalized in many parts of Asia, Africa, and N. Am 


* * Boreali- vel Centrali-Americana, Mexicana, pee et 
Ind. occid. 


51, A. Jacquint G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. p, 503, A, os Aaa 
G. Don, le. A. hypoleucum A. Gray, PL ‘Wright. i 20, Ay 
lignosum A. Rich. Fl. Cub. i. p. 152. A, domingense "Dar rez. Bull. 
Soc. Nat. Mose. 1858, p. 205. 4. peraffine Shutt. ex Chap. Fl, U.S. 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ. 915 


56. S. crassifolia L’Herit. Stirp. t. 60. S. Jacquini Dietr. 
Synop. iv. p. 854. 

Mexico! Yucatan! West Indies! Cuba! Florida! 

52. ) . Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 501. A. abutiloides 

Garcke in sane s Jahrbuch, 1898, p. 485. a lignosa Cav. ; 

DC. Prod. 469. S. abutiloides Jacq. Obs. t. 7. Lavatera 
americana i DO. Prod. i. p. 470. 

Hab. Me sxico! West Indies ! 

The description of Sida americana L. (A. americanum Sweet) in 
Sp. Plantarum, ed. 2, p. 963, would do very well for the above ; 
but the figures in Plum. Ic. i. t. 2, and the later one in Descourtilz, 
Fl. ee il. t. 406, are sacheitts not this plant 

. A. PERMOLLIS ers Hort. Brit. i. p. 58. Sida permollis 
Willd: DC. Prod. i. p. 4 
a Hab, West Indies. Cuba, Wright, No. 1571! Bahamas! 
‘lori 

Sida cornuta Willd. (A. cornutum Don) must be closely allied to 
this plant. 

54. A. Pac p Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xx. p. 357. 

on Arizo 

. A. Foe A. Gray, Pl. Wright. p. 20. 

Hb. New Mexico, Wright, No. 876! Texas! 

A. rie hi a Benth. Bot. of Sulph. p. 8. 

sb, Califor: 

67. A. ell A. Gray ex S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. 
xx. p. 358. 

Hab. Mexico, Berlandier, Nos. 1550, 8050, 3108. 

Var. pentatum A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. p. 301. 
Hab. Mexico. Chihuahua, Pringle, No. 806! 

58. A. Lemont S. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xx. p. 357. 
Hab. Mexico. Arizona! California. 

59. A. scasrum §. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. p. 41. 
Hab. Mexico, nr. Guaymas, Palmer, ‘Nos. 662! 97! 
60. A. Ducesn 8. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xx xi. p. 447. 
Hab. Mexico, nr. Guanajuato, Ber landier, No. 1830! 
61. A. Taursert A. ce in Pl. Thurb. p. 807. 


Hab exico. 

Allied to A. ramosum Gait & Perr. 

62. A. parvutum A. Gray in Pl. Wright. p. 21. 
Hab. Texas! Colorado. 

Allied to A. incanum Sweet. 

63. A. ELLIPTICUM Schl. in Linnea, xi. p. 368. 


Hab. Mexico. 
The flowers of this plant are corymbose above. 


216 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ. 


*,* Australi-Americana rarissime Mexicana vel Ind. occidentalia. — 
+ Caulis procumbens. 

64. A. eR ToS St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p. 198, t. 41; 
Us _ Schum. lc. p. 881. Sida slachomaitain Dietr. Synop. iv. 
p. 8 

Hab. Uruguay. Argentine Republic ! 


+ Caules erecti vel suberecti. 
. A. Neovipense K. Schum. J. ¢ 6 
Brazil. 


rab. 

According to Dr. Garcke (in Engler’s Bot. Jahr. 1898, p. a 
this may have to A eopeidexed a form of A. anodoides St. t. Hil. 
Naud. in Ann, Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, xviii. p. 49. 

66. INTEGERRIMUM Tarez in Bull. sey . Nat. ee: 1858, 
p. 204. A. aurantiacum Lind. Cat. Hort. 1 848, p. 44. 4d. plani- 
Jlorum C. Koch & Bouché in Borl Allgem. aunty 1857, p. 97. 
Sida integerrima Hook. Bot. Ma ag. t. 4860, 

ab. New Granada, Linden, No. 1508! Venezuela, Funcke, 
No. 758 ! 
67. A. lite) ae & Planch. Fl. Nov. Granat. p. 184, 
a New Gran 
a. crea ‘oie loc. p. 889. 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Minas Geraes, 

69. A. insienz Planch. in Van Houtte’s Fl. de Serres, v. p. 1 
t. 551; sie Mag. t. 4840. 4. igneum Hort, ex Nichols. Gand’ 
Dict. i. p. 4 

Hab. New Granada. 

70. A. eee Schum. 1. c. p. 882. 

Hab. 

Allied to = cr ae Medic, 

71. A, iInzqumaterum St, Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p- 198, t. 40. 

Hab. Brazil. 

72. A. Monospermum K, Schum. J. c. p. 8 

Hab. Brazil. Proy. Bahia, Glaziou, No. “a868) 

73. A. vircatum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. sy »p. 538; K. Schum. 1. ¢. 
p. 890. Sida virgata seek ; DC, Prod. i. p. 469. 

Hab. Centr: rica. Mexico, Peru 

Var. TOMENTOSA K. Schum. le. A, ereum, paranthemum, 
paranthemoides, et mendozinum Gris. Symb, a bt rg. p. 45. 

Ha razil! Argentine Republic. Boliyi 

74, A. REFLExUM Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 53, Si Be dese Cav.; 
DC. Prod, i. p. 469, 9. retrorsa L’Herit, Se ae 
Hab. Ecuador! Columbia ! Peru 


= Africana, Mauritiana, et Mascarensia. 
75. A, mavriTianum Medic. Maly, p. 28. Sida mauritiana Jacq. 
Ic. Pl. Rar. t. 187. 
Hab. Mauritius. Comoro Is. ! 


SHORT NOTES. 217 


76. A. zanzipartcum Masters in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 186. Sida 
zanzibarica Boj. in herb. 
om ¥ ropical Africa ! 
— oe Guill. & Perr. i. “be 64, t. 14. 
Ha Sen gal | 
hk, ade ead nee Gen. Syst. i.p. 500. Sida eastipularis 
pits ‘DG. Prod. ij 
~sge wwerbeiter Sans, No. 586! 
sa ft aa of this plant in Hb. Smith at the Linnean 
dbeieys The leaves are very acuminate, and cinereo-pubescent 
ath. 


9. ogee pa n. sp. A. indicum var. populifolium J. 
Szysyl. Enum. Pol ob. Pl. Rehmann. p. 128. Caule fruticoso 
molliter siherdo- velutino, foliis jonge petiolatis cordatis lanceolatis 


e 
dunculis teretibus supra medio articulatis, sepalis ovatis acutis Bike 


H a Ps nsvaal, Dr. Re cha, No. 5221! On the Maadji 
Mountain, W. J. Bu rehell, No. 237 
Larger leaves about 3 in. long aA Qi in. broad; petioles 1-24in.! 
carpels 2 in. 
(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


PHEGOPTERIS CALCAREA IN OxrorDsHIRE.—Wychwood Forest, in 
the north-west of the county, was the only pablished locality for 
the above plant in my Flora, but a locality in Buckinghamshire 
near Wycombe was on record. This year Miss Bell, daughter of 


same district yields the oak fern, which o tw lities, 
one in Bucks, the other in Oxon, both of which localities have b 
published in this Journal. Just as the oak from these places 


the drier soil in which the oak fern grows in Oxon and Bucks may 
tend to increase its resemblance to the pate ee polypody. —- G. 
Cranmer Druce 


Rosa Donrana 1x W, Kent.—-On May 28rd oe Wolley Dod 
and I gaat several fine bushes of this plant near Halling; and 


Trottescliffe a few days later. A. imvoluta is not recorded for 
W. Kent in wg be Botany, but was published in 1855 by 

fh. a. More, in the Phytologist (new iecioa}, @ i, 24, as occurring 
at Southbo cepa 5 Mr. F, Dickinson has also found a form (probably 
Doniana) near Crockham Hill.-Epwarp 8. M 


218 SHORT NOTES. 


HEMUM VULGARE IN IrneLanp.—I had the pleasure of 
discovering this species on the iibetans between Donegal an 
allyshannon a few days ago as been once 0 ce before 


guttatum. I may also mention the discovery of Myosotis collina and 
Eleocharis acicularis, nee for the County Donegal. New lo — 


produce my Flora of As it is unnecessary to enter into more 
Fetailed notice of localities—H. Cuicuester Harr. 


T DIA RInG.—The occurrence of this 

lant in ering state et ie) a oehenel that I think it worth 
mentioning that more than a hundred plants have been seen by me 
n bloom on Morden Decoy, Dorset, during late May or early June. 

This may be due to the extraordinary season, and, if so, is likely to 

occur in other localities ; while the prolonged drought renders its 
natural habitat more accessible than in average years.—Epwarp F 

Linton. 


BeprorpsHirE Rust (p. 81).—lt eiers eg information com- 
municated to me by Mr. James Saunders, that R. Lindleianus, R. 
rhamnifolius, R. rusticanus (under the ‘ierhe: e discolor), R. Radula, 

and R. dumetorum, which I gave as new to Bedfordshire in the 
March number of this Jonna, have been published previously in 
one way or an oe. I have to add the true R. rudis Weihe to the 
county list, found by me near Tarvey ; though this might seem to 
be a repetition, ae oe rudis Weihe” Bab. prius (which is equivalent 

R. echinatus dl.) os pth ae in print, as Mr. 
Saunders tells me. iy pF, Lin 

Mippiesex Pranrs. a few rae ago I found Littorella lacustris 
Rate 3 abundantly on the margin = oe Reservoir. Lathrea 
Squamaria I have gathered for some years past annually in a 
piiiaiia close to Jack’s Lock, near Harefield, and in the lane 
leading to Springwell Farm ; and Brac chypodium serge on the 
waste heath-land on Duck’s Hill, between Ruislip and Northwood. 
The authors of the Flora of Middlesex state that the: last record for 
Littorella was by Sir Joseph Banks in 1805, and for Lastrea by 
Blackstone about 1737. a Brachypodiun is probably a new 
record for the county.—J. Benzo 

i OF MBL oe CARYOPHYLLACEA.—In June, 1876, I 
gathered, among many specimens of O. caryophyllacea, one that, 
until fie time after, was not noted as unusual; and so the oppor- 
tunity for examining it in a fresh state was lost. But last autumn, 
in looking over the genus in my herbarium, this specimen seemed 
of so much interest that I sent some flowers to Dr. Giinther Beck, 
the monographer of the genus. The rarity cy the occurrence seems 
a sufficient excuse for publishing his note on it. In his letter 
respecting it he kindly sent a drawing, and made the following 
remarks :—‘‘ The two flowers were, I regret to say, not intact, one 


MISSOURI BOTANIC GARDEN REPORT. 219 


malformed sa oF it one flower only?). The corolla appears from 
the fragme o have been normal. The pistil is joined to the 

stamens ey a mite cylinder, which has on the inside the pubescence 
of the stamens (in the upper part glandular hairs, in the lower part 
(simple) hairs. oe eet —— of hen prety their filaments 


are wantin he anthers are in part normally ‘constricted, and 
show but few ma ik, whilst ange are i! 2a The lips 
appear to be depressed. The extremities e flowers are par- 


tially crippled ; one flower showed a social fore formed of two 
obes, whilst the other is three- lobed and ridged, and thus has 


h 
little doubt Dr. Beck is correct in referring it to Smith’s species. 
have vainly sought since for others in oe — es: i.e., between 

Dover and Folkestone, Kent.—Arruur 
© b. occrranum (Jord ces came across this 


mentioned for it in Top. Bot.): near Moor House, Teesdale, and on 
hills above Brough. In the latter locality Hieracium pallidum ec. 
er Piet Fr. grew close by. An additional station (see Baker’s 
a of Lake id for Carex " flifor mis Li. in Westmoreland is 
Rydal Water. Mr. Arthur Bennett has seen the Thlaspi, and Mr 
E. F. Linton kindly named the Hieracium.--H. 8. & C. E. Satmon. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Minnvers Botanic Garden. Fourth Annual Report. St. Louis, Mo.: 
published by the Board of Trustees. 1893. 8vo, pp. 226, 
t 


Pror. TRELEASE issues these handsome volumes with great 
promptness and regularity, and they always contain matter of 
botanical interest. tea eater part of the present volume is 


amas, Jamaica, an rand Cayman, during an expedition 


 EWO 
mensis and Eragrostis bahamensis—are described and figured, and 
two oth «orig epee pauciflosculosa Wright and Pies 


nomenclature, on which, did space allow, we should like to make 
a few remarks. He has ‘taken 1758 (the date of the first edition of 


220 MISSOURI BOTANIC GARDEN REPORT. 


Species Plantarum) as ‘the starting point for genera and species,” 

but the name on which our eye first fell was Xylon, w which was 
applied oe Linneus in Gen. Plant. amen) to the plant usually 
known 8 Eriodeydron anfractuosum. In 17538 Linneus called this 


on his own 
principles, Prof. Hitchcock has restored Xylon. The caer 
announcement that ‘‘in this catalogue e the original spelling” 


reference to imate monograph of wild and sohivaie rae 
as also Marshed the Garden with his very extensive botanical 
lib rary. 


A reference to our previous notices of the Missouri Reports 
(Journ, Bot. 1892, 32, 283) will show that these volumes are of 


h 
to this gentleman, ‘‘ who wn the Aindet of the Garden for 
many years,” Mr. tikes ‘ati to immortality is established not 
by his Garden or any of its adjuncts, but by the festal gathering 


8 
who fills them without money and without price will never be 


It has drawn me to that city more than once. It has drawn the 


forget the giver of their horn and crust. Mr. Shaw’s school ‘ta set 

were near this hospitality. I believe that he tented “tt, and s 

learned how to build a. a live-long monument.” Mr. Shaw's s 
m 


not quite as close to Windibeter as Prof. Butler seems to think 


Sha 
statue recumbent on the lid of hie sarcophagus , but the s 
phagus itself was uncovered. As we stood there I told him that j in 
the heart of the pyramid I had lain down in Pharaoh’s coffin, and 
as I had had the last enjoyment of Pharaoh’ tomb, so, with his 
permission, I would be the first to make proof of his. —and I di 
i “emery I could lie there in his place for ever.’ Did he foresee 
8 Spee 


TROPICAL AGRICULTURE.—THE FOOD OF PLANTS. 221 


— Tropical Agriculture. By A. H. Atrorp Nicuoxts, M.D., F.L.S., 

&c. Macmillan & Co. 1892. 6s. 

The Food of Plants. By A. P. Laurre. Macmillan & Co. Is. 
Tue first book i “ the result of a premium offered by the Jamaica 

Government for the best treatise on the art of agriculture a 

practised in the West Indies. While scuttle at home have 

their text-books—more or less trustworthy—the large number of 


native country, have had up to the present time no man 
their guidance: and the present volume admirably nig the 
cise ome 


series of its woo cuts. he firs pa consists of an intro- 


remarkably full manner, con ing with soils, manures, and 
closing i the physiology of “the ae methods used by the 
farmer, tillage operations, pruning, grafting, &c. All these subjects 
are discucbod without those inaccuracies Sato = the effort to 
use popular language sometimes leads scientific m 

The latter half o the volume is devoted to the more detailed 
consideration of the most important crops grown in tropical coun- 


wi 
practical portions. Many Englishmen in the tropics will be grateful 


o Dr. Nicholls for the way in which he conveys information of a 
strictly scientific character in an eminently readable form, while 
ee well to the fore the motto under which his prize essay 


inally appeared, ‘“ Respice finem.”’ 
oie * ie ’s little book, which contains only 63 small pages 
and a short appendix, cannot be said to be too abstruse, and while 
striving to be aati simple and elementary, it is indeed possible 


to go too far ; first chapters of this little volume give one 
the impression that Loonie of two syllables should have been used. 
_ seems hardly nec for a ate a of agricultural chemistry to 


the experiment tof cutting off the = of a plant and observing 
that it will wither and die (see Experiment I.). 
The book consists of a series of oxpasiaonts with the deductions 
o be drawn from each, and the writer certainly has been successful 
in aie | the elements of phygiotog) in very plain and simple 
e. 


arge 
pleasant to read. Thec . oe of the book lies in its brevity, 
bu e author aes o be used simultaneously with 
porcaibaeal text-books, ater this j is of not so much consequence. 


222, ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


As an elementary introduction a physiological botany, Mr. Laurie’s 
book will no doubt be of use in the science classes of our public 
schools, but its limitations proves its being of much service to 
more mature readers. 


® 
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


geschichte des Kryptosporium ieee: tite. 
ernander, ‘ Ueber das emia von ens ae ele an tio 
- Holz.’ — (Nos. 25, 26). O. Kuntze, ‘ Die Bewegung i in der botan- 
ischen Nomenclatur von Ende Teo, bis Mai 1898. 


Bot. Gazette (May 16). — G. F. miei Contribution to the 


biology of the Organism causing Legumin ee (4 plates). 
—M Thomas, ‘ The ee Corlloriz 2 plates). — W. N. 
Canby & J. N. Rose, Memoir of Geor, asey (portrait and 


pesoerapny) ——L. F . Ward, Prost freaks of the Dittany’ (1 plate). 
—W. C. Sturgis, Comatricha cespitosa, sp.n., & Physarum sulphu- 
reum (1 A @). 

Bot. Magazine ree — (Ap. 10). RB. Yatabe, Asparagus 
Tamaboki, sp. n. — (M ay 10). K. preeege Reo ions to the 
Phycology of Japan’ (Grateloupia horr n.), — 

‘ Notes on tb chs Plants’ (Astilbe piers ie sp.n.). 

Bot. Zeitung (June 19). — J. Wortmann, ‘ i Sn die 

Apa oes as! von concentrirtem Most fiir Pilzeultur 

. Soc. France (xl. Comptes rendus 5 Fea — 

“Webb, Tie ined i des fenilles de Sapin.’ — D. Clos, Cyclamen 
linearifolium as, — —. Boulay, ‘Quelques notes sur Péta de de es 
Rubus en France.’ — W. Russell, ‘ Sur les segagropiles marines.’— 
EK. Mesnard, praabictatlies pendant la germination des graines.’ 
—H. e Cordemon, ‘ Métaxyléme dans certaines Liliacées.’ — 
M. Hovelacque, ‘Caractéres anato omiques du Lepidodendron selagi- 
noides.’—Li. Guignard, ‘ Le tégument séiinal chez les Capparidées, 


eee Hyperieactés, Baleatniees: et Linacées.’—A. Bat- 
tandier, ‘ Sur n Doronicum de l Atlas.’-—P. Van Tieghem, ‘ Sur les 
genres acne ou nouveaux de la Bao des Thyméléce ées.” 


ull. Torrey ng Club (May).— C. CO. Curtiss, ‘ Seeds of native 

Orchids’ (3 plates). — T. C. Porter, ‘Grasses of Pennsylvania.’ — 
Id., ‘Solidago humilis’ (8 plates). — C. H. Kain, ‘ Francis Wolle’ 
(Dec. AT, me Feb. 10, 1898).—F. H. Knowlton, ‘Nomenclature.’ 

K.§ , ‘American ec Sot of Polygonum’ (P. Sawatchense, 

oP ree | plataye- T. Moro ‘ Thomas Hogg’ (Feb. 6, 1820- 
Dec. 80, 1892).—F. i Coville, ‘ George Vasey 

Erythea (June).— L. Greene, resisted ‘Oocidantales: ’"—Id., 
‘ Corrections in Wotcsiasuee’ — Id., ‘New Fashion in Writin 
Plant Nam . B. Bridgm * Deeaparea in Spirogyra con- 
densata.’ st M..: Bimuace ‘Rates of Amo» he Sruticosa,’ —J. G. 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 223 


Lemmon, ‘ Notes on W. American Conifere.’-—W. L. Jepson, Rhus 
trilobata Nutt., var. nov. quinata. 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (May 27). — Cotyledon Barbeyi Schweinf., 
sp.n. — (June 10). Anipho/ia longicollis Hort. Leichtlin, sp. n.— 
Saintpaulia inonantha H. Wendl. (fig. 104).— R. A. Rolfe, ‘Garden 
Orchids’ (Lissochilus). — (June 17). Chlorophytum brachystachyum 
Baker, Iris Athoa Foster, spp. nn. 

Trish ssi — (June). — R. Ll. sie ‘Flora of Armagh.’— 

. & J. Gro ‘ Notes on Irish Charace 


Journal a Botan (May 1). — E. "G. Camus, ‘ Orchideés de 
France.’—L. Guignard, ‘ Sur o oe ee de lag raine. —H 
Hua, ‘ Paris et Trillium. paciP, t, ‘Le trois genres Trentepohlia. 


Midland Naturalist.—W. eve ‘The Breaking of the Shr rop- 
shire Meres’ (2 plates).—J. E. cna ‘Flora of Warwickshire.’ 


Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift AL x v. Wettstein, ‘ Die Arten 
der Gattung Euphrasia.’—R fae RB udorina elegans Ehrbg.’ 
(1 plate).—K. Schiffner, ‘ He ser ane Pheer Stellung 
von Metzyeriopsis pusilla’ (1 plate). — ologische 


Bigenthtalih (2 plates): Lecythium, eat nay. — A. Nesiler, 


Trans. Linn. Soc. (2nd Ser. Bot. iii. — — P. Groom, ‘On 
Bud- sivcteutinis in Dicotyledons’ (2 plates). 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 


Tar Editor of Natural Science, who still ae wil heen - 
ame, has been good enough to recognise the he 
in i n ot The 


an 
Journal of Botany,” he says, ‘has been showing a tendency 
towards Cryptogamic ps during recent years. the April 
number there is a paper on Fresh-water Algw, on Jarine 
Alge, one on a Moss, oe on Hepatice, and a long cbitaaty — 
of a Esrptogemic boo The editor probably mean ore 
by this than tha t Cryptogamists (even though one Aosta are 
etting too many te him.” So far as we are able to unde — 
our young contemporary—and we adm t that ‘‘even though o 
pee — our ingenuity ,—it fs implied that the Editor of this 
1 is ine o insert esti on Cryptogams, but is over- 


of our pages by cryptogamists is the satisfactory one that, although 
more than one serial now exists expressly for their communications, 
this Journal has advantages as a medium of publicity. We are 


eee BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 


unconscious of any other meaning which can be attached to our 
action: and, so far from the cryptogamists ‘‘getting too many” for 
us, we shall ‘be glad to welcome more of them as contributors to 
our pages 

AN xitioliel’ well printed =m handy Check-list of the Plants of 
Gray’s Manual, compiled by John A, Allen, has just been 
issued by the Herbarium of ‘aevad University. An appendix is 
given, “in which an attempt has been made to enumerate the 
additional plants found within the limits of the Manual since the 
issue of the sixth edition.’’ The names of introduced pee are 
printed in italics, and we are thus enabled to see at a glance how 
largely adventive species contribute to make up the present North 

ican flor 


x se ee we have ever seen—and our orp ane is 
large—is that issued for vol. xxi. of Grevillea, in its June numb 
It is mainly arranged according to the specific names, the genera 
to which these belong being printed after them, sometimes in full, 
sometimes in a shortened form. Here are the first six entries :— 


‘‘abortivens (Agar.) icolum (Cenangium) 
acacize rapes acca [sic] ics ata (Agar 
acacia (Triphrag.) adequata (Inocybe). . 
If there is : bia chathod ere Ss than re we should be glad 
to know o But this i all. Mixed up with these are aad 
names (ene, not apecific) of Bates whose papaes are noticed— 
an explanation which we discover for ourselves, as none is given 


in the index: thus :— 
“‘brachypoda Sey ) brunneo-pictus (Agar.) 
thw. Buffham 


Braithwaite, R., M.D mi (Gommophyllum) [sic] 
brevis (Batoead es) Buffham, T. H.” 
Those who wish to look up contributions to any one genus can only 
do so by hunting through the whole list of names. After eight 


pages of this kind of thing comes “ original articles,” the titles of 
which are given in — the form and order in which they 
appear in the Magazine: so that -‘* New or critical British Fungi, 
G. Massee,” is atiiod: pele and so throughout. There is no list 
of contributors, of books reviewed, of papers Fein nuthin even se 
show whereabouts the various branches of eryptogam 
ound. Moreover, the index of species, such as ~ is, is ridienloualy 
als 


incomplete, even nov velties being omitted; it i so inaccurate, 
and has abundant misprints. Itea en on nly fitly ‘ described by one 
of the ee it contains—* asininus.”’ 


College, will t sed gain much information from th 

books,” if the devoted “outline classification of th 
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enumeration of the names of orders, occupies (title and blanks 
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SCORTECHINI'S MALAYAN FERNS. 
By Cot. R. H. Beppome, F.L.S. 


In November, 1887, I published in this Journal a list of the 
ferns collected in and around Perak by the Rev. Father Scortechini. 
This collection was deposited in the Natural History Museum 

South Kensington, after having been exhibited at the Colonial 
Exhibition. The Rev. Father made further collections before his 


has lately forwarded one set of these to Kew a similar set to 
me. The following is a list of the species srarallee which did 
not occur in the first collection, those mar ed with an asterisk 
being, I believe, new to the Perak district. 


on hirt 


‘si the upper side " se ar Le type. It may, when better 
known, prove to be a new spec Some of the — were 
labelled «Beddomei,” and ee Ls Seoptoabians.” MS. names of 


ing. 

. ornata var. siisonste Agrees with the acer he fern 
described by Clarke and Baker under the name of sikkimensis, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 409, except that the stipe and main rachis 
are more prominently muricated. 

* Diacalpe aspidioides Bl. 
Davallia triphylla Hook. 
dD. pene var. amplissima. oe fern is the same as Mr. 
Mann’s Cachar : mene at page 14 of the Supplement to the 
Ferns of British India (1892). It was ¢ ealled by Scortechini D. 
amplissima. It is, I think, sufficiently distinct from the type to be 
c 


arie et 
Micerolepia Kurzit Cl. ee 
Schizoloma davallioides Bl.—S. ensifolia Sw. 


polepis punctata Bedd. 
* Pteris semipinnata var. latilobata. Texture more coriaceous than 


in the type; the wing and lobes of the seg more than double as 
broad; veins rarely somewhat anastomos 

Litobrochia incisa var. integrifolia. Ponce perfectly entire, 
put, unlike Mr. Day’s specimens, a basal pair of auricles is present. 

Lomaria procera Spr. 

* Plagiogyria euphlebia Acai ae less acuminate and less 

serrated than in the Indian e 

Thamnopteris Nidus var. se "Mett. Fronds 14 in. wide. 


Journat or Borany.—Vot. 81. [Ave. 1893.) Q 


226 SCORTECHINI’S MALAYAN FERNS, 


Asplenium Wightianum var. vuleanicum Bl.— A. unilaterale Lam. 
Diplazium Prescottianum Wall. After seeing copious specimens 
of the Malayan sylvaticum from King’s collectors and others, I think 
that this should rank as a distinct species. 
. Hemidictywm Finlaysonianun Wall.? A simple fronded state. 
Specimens poor and insufficient. 

Polystichum semicordatum Sw. 
| Aspidium semibipinnatum Wall.—A. repandulum Willd.—A. poly- 
morphum Wall.—A. decurrens Presl. 

Pleoenemia membraniifolia Presl. Contracted form. 

Nephrodium brachyodon Bl.—N. larutense 

Polypodium subpinnatifidum Bl.—P. nutans Bl. 

*P. repandulum Mett. var. malayanum. Agreeing with the Ceylon 
species, except that the sori, instead of being only slightly immersed, 
are deeply sunk in pits or cavities with raised margins. Scortechini 
considered it a new species, calling it brevifrons. 

*Goniophlebium Prainii, n. sp. Rhizome stout, densely 
clothed with long hair-pointed chestnut scales, which are very 
iridescent on the broader portion near their peltate base; stipes 
14-2 ft. long, firm, erect, naked; fronds deltoid-lanceolate, about 
1 ft. long by 10 in. broad at base, pinnate ; pinne numerous, about 
# in. broad, narrow-lanceolate from a broad dilated base (which 

“never forms a wing to the rachis, the pinne being quite separate), 


a few hairs on the partial rachis below ; margins slightly crenated, 


‘free or anastomosing veinlets towards the margin; sori in 1 or 2 
serles.—Perak. Sent under the name of amenum, but quite unlike 


trifida, except in its sori being deeply sunk 
P. dilatata Wall. 
Antrophyum coriaceum Wall. 
Elaphoglossum latifolium Sw, 
Gymnopteris spicata var. latifrons Bedd. 


227 


NOTES ON INDIAN FERNS. 
By Cou. R. H. Beppome, F.L.S. 


Ar page 5 of the Supplement to the Ferns of British India 
I oe the two ferns, Deesnonye Saag and Kingi by mistake 


Schizolona Gueriniana Gaud. - / haeag the Moluccas, age from 
Malacca, and must be eliminated from the ferns of British India. 

sae ipa ee Oe Further specimens fone this 
to be only a form of Ad. hirtu 

A, ome guum Kaulf. The ‘Nilgini and Anamallay forn figured at 
Plate , F.S.1., should remain under this name; the typical 
nach eal with long, narrow, very finely caudate pinne, and sori 
closely pressed against the midrib, has age been found (within our 
limits) in the Mal nd Peninsula, and not been figured by me; 
contiguum is nearer in its sori to Sasa than to faleatum 

Diplazium cerabyllve Baker, This should be omitted from 


our sci the Penang fern being certainly only tomentosum.- 
Grijithit Moore, Ind. Fil. 331. “Fronds deltoid, pinnate, 
ubcoriaceous; pinne curved or ascending, the lower 


n 

distinctly stipitate, elongate- triangular, acuminate, the upper 

oblong-acuminate, sessile, the uppermost confluent, forming an 

acuminated pinnatifid apex; pinnules oblong, falcate, subauriculate 

acute, crenate-serrate, those of the lower pinne slightly unequal ; 
i e near the cos 


12-15 in. long, and nearly as much in width across the base.” 
is Moore’s excellent description of this fern. It has 


(N 186 & 45594); also abundantly by G. Mann in the same 
locality, and by Jerdon and Oldham. (Mettenius’s and Hooker’s 
types of Grifithii are the fern I figured under that name a 
Tab w referred to wnbrosum var. multicaudatum, 
hence much ‘confusion until Mr. Mann unrayelled it in the 

wai ok m.) It is the fern referred to by me under ep aie at 
page 188 of the Handbook. Mr. Clarke has referred it to sylvaticum, 


and Mt Bakes to latifolium; it is nearest to ralifobiserk from which 
its comparatively small, short, very deltoid fronds sufficiently dis- 
. Ma 


Nambur Forest, Assam: with the cn tees of the pinne as in the 
Perak specimens, rather more cut than in §. Indian an specimens, but 
less so than in Thwaites’s Ceylon var. pacbichins C. P. 8892. 
Nephrodium evolutum var. B., page 77, Fern Saeitoiadi Copious 
specimens of this fern from Mr. Mann prove it to be quite distinct 
from evolutum, so I separate it as N. Gustavi (after Mr. G. Mann) ; 


re ilar to those of multilineatum var. assamicum 
texture, &c., and 2-8 pairs of veins anastomose, 2-3 
lower pinne are distant and much reduc size, or more rarely 


. 


228 PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. 


sing. 
N. multilineatum var. assamicum. The Assam form alluded to 


a species. The rhizome is very stout and shortly creeping, with 
the stipes approximate; the auricles are small and lanceolate, and 
more like those of truncatum, but the texture of the frond is that of 
multilineatum and Gustavi; were it not for the very different 
rhizome, I should refer it to Gustavi, Tt is important that fiel 

botanists should note how far the rhizome of these two ferns is 


SOME PLANTS OBSERVED IN Bf. SCOTLAND, JULY 
AND AUGUST, 1899, 
By tHe Rev. Epwarp §, Marsuatu, M.A., F.L.S. 

My northern tour last year was a varied one, embracing 
lowland, alpine and maritime districts. Two or three very enjoy- 
able days were spent at Faldonside, Selkirkshire, where I was the 
guest of Mr. W. B, oyd. By his permission I publish here, in 
addition to a few novelties detected by myself, several species 

a : 


Glen Shee; S, Lapponum X nigricans, from Carnlochan; S. Lapponum 


ochsie ; and 8. nigricans X repens 

After leaving Glen Shee I eravellad to Boe 

m examining the littoral and moorland vegetation of the neigh- 

: The most interesting plant obtained was Alisma ranun- 
culoides var. zostertfolium Fries, already recorded in this Journal. 

_ An asterisk denotes a “ new county record”; the Watsonian 

vice-counties being 79 Selkirk, 89 KE, erth, 90 Forfar, 92 8. Aber- 

deen, 96 EB, Inverness, and 106 E. Ross, 


PLANTS OBSERVED iN &. SCOTLAND. 999 


obligations to Mr. Arthur Bennett, of Croydon, are again 
very great. Help has also been re eceived from Messrs. Alfred 
Fryer, F. J. Hanbury, Linton, and Moyle Rogers. 
| Rawuaiatle Drouetit Godron. Sparingly — the boat- ree 
on the north side of Rescobie Loch, *90.—R. peltatus Schrank, v 
elongatus Bab.(Batrachium elongatun F, Schultz). Cauldshields Loch, 
*79; determined by Mr. Bennett. A curious little submerged Ranun- 
culus grows in another part of the same sheet of water; for this, 


Shee, and near the top of Caenlochan Glen. I do not know 
iether this differs from R. vulgatus Jordan, placed eet acris in 
the last edition of the London Catalogue. 

Aquileyia vulgaris L. This occurs by the stream, a little below 
the Spittal of Glen Shee, but evidently as an escape from one o 
the gardens, 

erberis vulgaris Li. Hedges near Faldonside, *79; almost 
certainly plante 

Nymphea alba oo var. minor Syme. Peaty pool at the west end 
of — nam-Bon ach, near Beauly. 

Corydalis iibioutatt DC. On a bank at Kilmorack, near 
saly, 


Fishatea densiflora ser Plentiful in cornfields between Blair- 
gowrie and Marlee Loch, 8 

Curdamine flexuosa With. Woods at Faldonside, *79. 

Cochlearia anglica L. Abundant by the Beauly Firth, *96, and 
at Dingwall, . A-curious plant, which has leaves not unlike 
the English coast form, but differs ei it in the fruit. It was 
mostly over at the time of my visit, and deserves further study. 

Sisymbrium Thaliana Hooker. Ascends to 1700 ft. on rocks in 
Glen Shee 

Lipidiiom Smithii Hooker. By the Shee Water, at 1100 ft. ; 
one i lant 

Thlaspi alpestre L. A small specimen was met with in Caen- 
Jochan Glen at fully 2900 ft, on the opposite side to its recorded 
n. 


Viola canina L. Sparingly in Glen Shee and Glen Beg, 89; 
and by the Bently river, *96. 
Polygala Lame Reichb. Frequent in Glen Shee, *89, on dry 
banks; ascending ft. 
laria nemorum Li. Growing in a streamlet above Corrie 
Kandor, — at 8000 ft.; very scarce, small, and flowerless, but 
unmistaka 
Sagina Dinndt Presl. On Craig Panes rae a hill adjoining 
the Cairnwell, 89. remarkable form with the leaves sinaebis 
ciliate, and the pedicel and calyx more or yen sea ort was found 
on exposed rocks in Glen Canness, at about 2500 ft.; it may be 
called f. glandulosa 
Lepigonum salinum Fries, By the Beauly Firth, near Lentran, 
*96, 


230 PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. 


Hypericum quadratum Stokes and HH. hirsutum L. grow together 
on the rocks of a railway-cutting, about a mile and a half nor th of 
Desswall associated — a quantity of Astragalus glycy yphyllos Li, ; 
all three are true natiy 

reranium pratense .. Near Conan, 106; certainly wild.—@. 
lucidum La. Among rocks in Glen Shee, at 1600 ft.; very scarce. 

Anthyllis Vulneraria This oceurs on the Cairnwell, at an 
saath of cea ft. ; Vicia sepium Li. attains the same altitude in. 
Caenlochan 


thyru | pratensis L. A pretty form with sulphur-coloured 
flowers was noticed on the eainay. bank at B 


ly. 
r vi d near the inaccessible cliffs of the 
Falls of Kilmorack, one eA sagab are trees belonging to this 
Species which -_ appearance of bei hier reap ; the 


ubus plicatus W, ‘ ir ¥ Im orack, *96; also near Dingwall, -- 
R. villicaulis W. & N. Near Blairgowrie, #89 ; Beauly, *96. — R, 


Rogers considers to be best placed here, in an aggregate sense.— 

R. Radula Weihe. Near Faldonside, «79, — R. vest ‘um W.&N 

A pretty little shrub, which Mr, Rogers considers intermediate 

between oe and scabrosus, grows beside the railway at 
06 


Conan, *106. I had referred it to a small state of diversifolius.—R, 
corylifolius Smith. na onal 96. 

Geum rivale x urbanum (G. Pp abt aope Ehrh.). Rather 
6 scr near Faldonside, *79, also it at one spot near 


Agrimonia —— rial. Near Dingwall, *1 

fiosa spinosissina L. Two r three bu ea: by the Beg Burn, 
just above its fihotun with the hse Water, at 1150 ft.—R. involuta 
Sm ei Near ite sce *79, where it was pointed out to me by 


Vv ; Mr. 
which I hardly think to be correct, from my own notes on the 
living plant. fg home oe roses grow about Beauly, con- 
cerning which I hay, 
mollis Smith, Sues, wie at near Faldonside, raOs Wi ar. carulea 
"00ds, was gathered near Philiphaugh. —R, yubi, ginosa Iu, met 
with this ~ no fewer than five counties, and onl one of its sali 


orm. 
Several fine isis near Philiphaugh, *79 ; 

owers large, pink, with the petals cuneate below so as to pear 
distant; styles very hairy, Another plant from Beauly, whisk ‘Mr. 


PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. 231 


Rogers places under this species, appears to me to form a con- 

necting link with R. Borreri Woods, which occurs thereabouts, 

the other canina varieties noticed being lutetiana, urbica, dumalis, 

arvatica and dumetorum. e last named was also found near 
id 


grew near the iron veeton vate over the Conan river, *106; but 
S presence as a garden rub at the station, about half a mile 
n 


Pyrus oonegae Ehrh. “a tree, fruiting freely, was met 
with beside the Conan river, not far above the last-named plant ; 
but I suppose i to have been pein d. 

ippuris vulgaris L. In a swamp, near the farm of Haster 
Moy, Conan river, 106. are, sO “far nor 
prose seh samy ee DC. Beauly *96. 

Callitriche stagnalis Scop. Long Moss, near Faldonside, *79.—— 
Var. ser nlf egemgneoons Muddy cart-track in Glen be . 
about 1200 ft. *89.—-C. hamulata ae Ascends to 2800 ft. on 
hill erie the Cairnwell, just n §. Aberdeen.—C. sunintiate 

Schechernich, 89; ‘Lech Ussie, near Conan, 106 


Jind um Salicaria Lb. Near Bea uly, 

Chrysosplenium alter oe L. Tuidonside, * ah 

Kpilobium anyustifolium L. Very dwarf and flowerless at 
2600 ft. on exposed pre s, Meall Odhar, 89.—F. cain L 
reaches the same elevation in Caenlochan.-—/. palustre L. The 


form vanaf Lec. & Lamotte (var.) was found in Glen Shee, 

well m FE. alsinifolium x anagallidifolium. Head of Glen 
Thailneiche, *89. Streamlet in Corrie Kandor, *92;- ravine of 
Glen Canness, 00 - all three cases the parents grew with it.—F. 
montanum X palus Ditch near Kilmorack, *96. had often 
previously soretaed for this hybrid without success. My plants are 
much nearer to palustre in habit, but the po ohenamecnuee, shrunken 
capsules, &¢c., leave little room for caret —FE. obscurum x palustre. 
Restenneth, 90; Glen Shee, 89. obscurum X parviflorum, 
Restenneth, *90. 

Circaa intermedia Ehrh. Wood by the Tweed at Faldonside, 
*79; this had been passed by as C. lutetiana, with which it seems 
to be frequently confuse 

Cicuta a ‘ ‘Whitlaw Moss, near Faldonside, *79; long 


kno 
Pimpinella re = aga Li. — to 2400 ft. in Glen Shee. 
OD e crocata L. In ne locality on the right bank of the 
rege 


i. 
ellis perennis L. Reaches 3000 ft., above Caenlochan. 
Arctium intermedium Lange. Beauly river, belo rack. 
I understand from Mr. Bennett that t Lange considers his plant 
identical op Lejeune’ s id. nemoroswm ; in which case it s seems as 
though our present ‘4. nemorosum” would require 
Var. subtomentosum Ar, Bennett, A plant with densely woolly 


232 PLANTS OBSERVED iN E, SCOTLAND. 


heads, about identical with Mr. Griffith’s Anglesey form, was found 
above Kilmorack, *96, an by the Conan river, *106, 
Carduus crispus L. Coast between Fowlis and Novar, *106; in | 
ild. 


grescens Fries, Ledges in Caen- 
lochan Glen, at 2900 ft. Mr. Hanbury has recorded it from Glen 


strictum Fries. By the Conan river, 106,—- H, crocatum Fries, 
With the last, and sparingly in Glen Shee.—H, EHupatorium Grise- 
bach (corymbosum Fries). Shee Water, scarce; railway-bank near 
C ; 


mens were seen.—H. euprepes - Hanbur 
Glen Shee, from 1100 up to 1800 ft., *89 ; also in Glen Callater,- 


F. Linton.—H, Farrense F. J, Han ury. Glen Shee, *89. The 
Corrie Ardran locality for this (in 88 Mid-Perth) should be erased, 
as the plant collected there was H. Pictorum Linton.—H., casio. 
murorum Lindeberg. Thig handsome and well-marked species 
occurs in various parts of Glen Shee, *89, from 1000 to 1700 ft.—- 


black instead o pure yellow; otherwise they were quite typical.— 
HI, reticulatum Linde erg. Conan river, «106 think this a good 


Species, though near H. Eupatorium ; in cultivation the rosette of 
root-leaves is very characteristic. 

ctuca muralis Fresen, Scarce, but certainly a true native, on 
the wooded bank of the Beauly river, below the Falls of Kil- 
morack, +96. A very rare plant in North Britain, 


Calluna Erica DC. The var. ‘cana occurs near Beauly. 
rua procumbens Desy, Sparingly on the Perthshire side 


PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. 233 


Pyrola minor Sw. Reaches 2900 ft. in Caenlochan 

Symphytum me ‘sum L. Banks of the Tweed, 'Faldonside, 
*79; by the Conan river, *106. 

Myposotis euler is With., var. str lon. {Beiehb ). Near Beauly, 

eit repens D. Don. ‘Near Beau 
Veronica arvensis L. Ascends to i600 ft. by the Braemar road 
in Glen Beg, 89.—V. persica Poir. Cultivated ground about 
Beauly, «96. 

a. neglecta omer? Long Moss, near Faldonside, *79 ; 
pools on Restenneth Mos 

Calamintha “Clinopodiun Benth. By the sone Burn, 89. 

Galeopsis speciosa Miller. Near Conan, 

Atriplex littoralis L. Near Lentran, neti Beauly, *96.— 
patula L. About Lentran and Beauly, ° «96; both type and va 
erecta.—A. Babing gtonit Woods, var. virescens Lange. Near Lobes: 

*96, and pees *106. 

Rumex sanguineus L., var. viridis ies ). Conan, *106. — 

erispus X obuaoliae (R. acutus L.). hee, 89.--R. pi 

ann. Glen Shee. With this ae a nde which seems to 
be a hybrid between it and another species, probably crispus; but 
the fruit characters are too immature to allow of certain deter- 
mination.—-R. Hydrolapathum Huds. In a reed- bed of the Beauly 
river, *96, below the town; only one plant seen. Apparently very 
rare in Scotlan 

Euphorbia dulcis L. Thoroughly naturalized on the bank of the 
Conan river, flowing through the grounds of Brahan Castle, *106. 

us Lupulus L. Roadside near Kilmorack, *96; not 
looking like an introduction, though no doubt really suc 
Ulmus montana Smith. About Faldonside, *7 9. 
Betula pubescens Khrh. Not uncommon near Beauly, 
Salix Smithiana Willd. I no siaed two bushes by the euaiais 
- near he hea i aepe the Spittal of Glen Shee and Persie 


'S 
> 


Go odyera repens R. Brown. Very plentiful in woods near 
Beauly, Conan, and Strathpelier. Ecicesient s remark about the 
eaves being ‘‘netted with brown” must be based on dried 


ver © 
eae Mosses near Faldonside, *7 ssi men Beauly, «9 
abenaria conopsea Benth. Moorland near Faldonside, a a= 
H. viridis R. Brown. Ledges of Caenlochan, at 2800 ft. 
Juncus alpinus igi A a or two in Glen Shee, 89. 


Sparganium simplex Hudson. Faldonside Moss, *79.--S. ajjine 
Schnizl. Moorland streamlet near Conan, *106, and in pits near 


234 PLANTS OBSERVED IN E, SCOTLAND. 


the Beauly river, 96. One of the Species grows in Loch Brota- 
chan, 92, at an elevation of 2300 ft., but was not seen in flower. 
—-S. minimum Fries. Long Moss, near Faldonside, — Also by 


Potamogeton natans L. Near Faldonside, «79. At 2300 ft. in 
2 (Loch Brotachan),—P, polygonifolius Pour. Long Moss, near 
Faldonside, *79.—-P, coloratus Hornem. (Ps plantayineus DuCroz). 
With the last, «79. — Pp, alpinus Balbis (P. rufescens Schrader). 
Moorland stream near Conan, *106.—P, heterophyllus Schreber. 
At 2300 ft. in 92 (Loch Brotachan), A pretty little form grows in 
Loch Ussie, 106, and a deep-water form with very long peduncles, 
at the west end of Marlee Loch, 89.-—P, heterophyllus x perfoliatus 
(P. nitens anct.). In Loch Ussie, *106, with the parents.——2, 
upsaliensis Tis. . side of Rescobie Loch, *90. Messrs. Knox and 
Graham agreed with me, at the time of its discovery, in thinking 


to Scotland, but known from E, Anglia.—P. Zizii Roth. The 
Cauldshields Loch (79) plant can hardly be the same as the hybrid 
usually called Zizii in England, as one of the parents (P. hetero- 
phyilus) does not grow in the loch. I think that the Rescobie plant 
f = 


13 the same thing.__P prelongus Wulf. Cauldshields Loc 
This is not a new discovery, but the old record seems to have been 
overlooked. Loch ie, -- erfolatus L.  Plentiful in 


0 
previously found in Britain. It did not flower last summer, unlike 
the heterophyllus of the same water.——-P. crispus L. Loch Ussie, 
*106.—P. Friesii Ruprecht. In the small loch at Whitmuirhill, 
near Faldonside, *79.-—P, pusillus L, Long Moss, near Faldon- 
side, *79 ; Loch Ussie, +106. The var. tenuissimus Koch grows in 
pools near the Beauly river, 96, below the village.——P, Sturrockii 
'. Dennett. A new station for this well-marked and elegant 
species is Loch Schechernich, 89; the elevation is somewhere 
about 1500 ft, 
Ruppia rostellata Koch. Coast near Lentran, «96. The var. 
nana Boswell was inet with between Fowlis and Novar, *106; 


Zannichellia palustris L, Long Moss, *79. 
: An great abundance on the shores of the 
Beauly and Dingwall Firths ; only var. angustifolia Fries was seen, 
i f the 


na 
freely, on the muddy coast near Lentran, +96 ; abundant, but not 
seen in flower, near Dingwall, «106. These stations considerably 
extend the limits of its known range in Britai ‘ 
Lleocharis multiceulis Smith, Moorland near Loch Ussie, 106. 
Scirpus sylvaticus L, A few fine plants at the west end of 
Marlee Loch, 89,9, rufus Wahlb, Coast near Dingwail, but scarce. 


PLANTS OBSERVED IN E. SCOTLAND. , 235 


Ardblair Loch, near Blairgowrie, 89.-—-C. paniculata L, Swamp 
near the Conan river, 106. I believe it to be very rare in the 
northern Highlands.—-C. curta Good. Glen Shee. The var. alpi- 
cola (Wahl.) was well marked on Meall Odhar, 89, t 8000 ft.-—-C. 
rigida Good. Mr, Bennett believes that the “ var. inferalpina 
Laestad.” of the London Catalogue, would be better named C. 
limula Fries; but he has not been able to see a type-specimen of 
either. think that the Glas Maol plant should remain under 
rigida as a variety.—-C. salina Wahl., var. kattegattensis (Fries). I 


C. Goodenowii Gay. A queer little viviparous state was obtained by 
the Canness Burn, 90, near its source. The var. juncella grows at 
Restenneth.—-C. capillaris L. Ascent of Craig Leacach, 89.— C. 
levigata Smith. Near Kilmorack, 96.--C. flava L. Forms ap- 


minor Townsend.—-C. flava x fulva (C. xanthocarpa Degl., C. sterilis 
Syme). i 


*106. ‘ 
Castle, *106; only a few plants seen. 
Deschampsia discolor R. & S. Wet moorland, south of Loch 


sie, *106. 
Avena pubescens Hudson. Ascends to 1700 ft. on rocks in Glen 


Molinia carulea Moench. The form or var. minima Rabenhorst 
grows with Juncus alpinus in stony ground by Loch Ussie. 

Glyceria plicata Fries. Glen Shee, at 1000 to 1150 ft.+—Var. 
depauperata Crépin. uddy roadside, Kilmorack, *96. Named 

Hackel; a prostrate form, with the inflorescence nearly or 


Bromus giganteus L., var. triflorus Syme (B. triflorus L.). 

y y, Conan river, *106.— B. asper Murray. 

Railway cutting, about 14 mile north of Dingwall, #106; native.—- 
B. mollis L., var. glabrescens Cosson. Glen Shee, in sown grass- 


Ss. 
Lastrea Filix-mas Presl, var. paleacea Moore. At 2600 ft., on 
i .—L. emula Brackenbridge. 
Ascending to Loch-nan-Eun, at the head of Glen Thailneiche, 


Perthshire flora. 
Botrychium Lunaria Sw. At 2700 ft., on Meall Odhar, 89. 
Equisetum variegatum Schleich. By the Lochsie, 89, at 1250 ft. 
Chara fragilis Desy. Cauldshields Loch, 79; Loch Brotachan, 
92, at 2300 ft. Apparently the var. delicatula in both cases. -- C, 


236 SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF G@NANTHE. 


aspera Willd. Cauldshields Loch and Long Moss, 79.--C. poly- 
acantha A, Braun. Long Moss, 79.—C. contraria Kuetz. un- 
dant on the south side of Rescobie Loch, 90. It is likely to be 
already recorded from this station.——C. vulgaris L. A small and 
very dense form, growing on mud, was met with on the border of 
Long Moss, 79. Mr. Bennett says that it resembles the form 
called montana by Braun. 


SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF GNANTHE, 
By Arruur Benyert, F.L.S. 


e 
London Catalogue as 2. pimpinelloides L., Ch, peucedanifolia ‘ Poll.,”’ 
and Uf, Lachenalii Gmel. From the publication of the Ist ed. of 


H. 
obtained. 
information, so many mistakes, that it can hardly be placed in the 


of arriving at the truth, having gathered all three, 
may be of some interest to take a retrospective glance at the 
has 


4. pimpinelloides Ly. in Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis, pp. 205, 7, 
In the 2nd ed. (1847) of the Manual we have (2. pimpinelloides L., 
rt n ll 


Species (C2. pimpinelloides L.) is made of the three, with two varieties ; 
followed by th i h ) 


* Ann. Nat. Hist. xiy, 4 (1844), t Ul. c. 96, 
‘< ao Journ, Bot. iii, 71 (1844); Phytologist, i, 1083 (1844) ; ii, 11, 390; 
§ 1. ¢, ii, 354, 


SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF (@NANTHE. 237 


be considered rather as marked a than as true species.” 
Watson’s remark (Compend — t. 78) seems the fittest 
i e :— The 


general botanist is not ilinienaie: ne the = cise knowledge 
of the local botanist is not sufficiently comprehensive.” 
In the 8th ed. of Hooker & Arnott’s Br itish srs (1860) we 
have (. ~okatense seme L., G. Lachenalii Gmel., and (. silaifolia 
t 


panes he last with the synonym “ (. pracedanifelia Sibth. (non 
Poll.).” i ehneien’s Maal 8th ed. (1881), the last _ 
stands as (L. silaifolia Bieb. ? ieeoey 8 Student? s Flora, ed. 


(1884), it is styled dz. peveedanfi (Poll.). 

Nyman (Sylloge, 1854, p. 155) gives our English ee under 
“* (, peucedanifolia Poll.”’; and in his Conspectus, p. 298 (1879), he 
places the English and Irish plant under the same name. 

The object of this note is to put on record the opinions of two 
excellent cgerr nat a this — plant, as represented by the 
series sent them consisting of examples grown in my garden from 
Surrey see pio the pla _ an the seed-leaves to the per- 
fectly ripe a and the decayed winter state. 

wrote on eS 7, 1889 :—‘*I have examined your 
QE, silaifolia, oie could not find any stable differences from the 


fferent European countries. Generally “ continental plant has 
shorter and a little broader leaflets, but some garden specimens 


one the rest is identical, however, the fruit “te td ics I never 
w so broad and with such broad prominent ribs as yours hay 
But in breadth and Senge the parts ee reond a good deal, but the 


Schumann, of the Berlin Herbarium, wrote on March 
Oth last :—‘‘ Regarding the secre plant, I ae agree 
with your eos a after having carefully examined it, I ¢ 
find no difference fro m Ginanthe sai M. B., of which we have 
a type hens ecer sath us by 
As regards the sca plans ot on ho named by our botanists, 
I find that sige are rarely n ixed (by names) one with the 
other. As to their ainecenty: “ inive had * three Portes vo 
many yea i At the time I write (March 11th), silaifolia 
abundance of radical leaves, nihile: ab renames has made no Pa 
of appearing, and does not usually do so until the end of the 
month. chena i 


appearing, grow strictly upright from the ground, only inclining as 
they grow older; in pimpinelloides, sie ore directly they have 
pushed through the ground, to spread by a very peculiar gyrate 

wth, the apex of the leaves representing the spokes of a wheel, 
with the leaf-segments very close together, and pressed close to the 
ground. They only resemble the detached leat i in English Botany, 
t, 594 (ed. 3), after some weeks, 


238 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF CO. ARMAGH. 


The first radical leaves of either silaifolia or pimpinelloides are 
not shown on the F. B. plate. CM. silaifolia will be in flower 
sometimes by May 20th* to June 20th. (. pimpinelloides in culti- 
vation I have never seen earlier than July 10th. Lachenalii I have 
not seen in flower before July, but in the Flora of Dorset, “June to 
October” is given. I hope to sow seeds of all three at one time, 
and note their differences in the first year’s growth. 

I ought to add that Grenier (in a letter to Dr. Boswell in 1853) 
refers our plant to Ci, peucedanifolia Poll. On this I may perhaps 

inion. In the Kew Herbarium there is a specimen 
from Schultz, which seems to me to exactly agree with the peucedani- 
folia of Pollich, and comparing ours with this I cannot make it 
agree, but would name our plant silaifolia M. Bieberstein, JJ. 
Taur. Caue. iii. p, 282 (1819). 

Finally, I do not believe that any botanist could grow these 
three plants for several years, carefully watching them at all 
stages, and regard them as one species, even from a Linnean 
‘standpoint. ; 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF COUNTY ARMAGH. 
By R. Luoyp Prazcer, B.E., M.R.I.A. 


Armacu is a rather small county, with an area of 512 square 
es, lying in the north-eastern portion of Ireland. With the 


mil y 
exception of its south-eastern corner, where it borders the narrow 


area. Its northern boundary is the southern shore of Lough Neagh, 
the largest sheet of inland water in the British Islands, and long 


known as the home of several interesting and extremely rare plants. 
of Cybele Hibernica, which also includes the counties of Tyrone, 


n. 

There is a variety of geological formations in Armagh, and 
these have a due effect in their respective areas, both on the 
physical features and on the flora. In the north, stretching. along 
the Lough Neagh shores, there is a thick deposit of lacustrine clays 


of Older Tertiary age; this ow-lying area is now covered with 


Rss eats AON EIEN EET ERO Ra OM Eee eee ie 
* This early spring it is flowering on May 11th. 


NOTES ON PHE FLORA OF CO, ARMAGH, 289 


heath-clad hills, with flat stretches of poor land bet ; the 
highest of these hills is Slieve nian (1898 ft.), fnennet in es 
romance as the scene of marvellous adventures, and as the home 
of dread magicians and of frightful monsters. 
The flora of County Armagh had not in past years received a 
large amount of attention from local botanists, and, though a 
number of records of rare plants existed, they were the result of 
desultory rather than of spaisostia search. It appeared, soni 
especially in view of the approaching publication of a new edition 
of Cybele Hibernica, that a botanical survey of the sounes was 
desirable, and with this object I devoted a eae: weeks’ holiday last 
season to a rapid investigation of its phanerogamic 
full list of plants obtained, and their sakiome, the reader is referred 
to the pages of the Irish Naturalist (J anuary- August, 1893) ; in the 
present notes I wish merely to indicate the more interesting features 
of the flora, to point out the effect of varying petrological conditions, 
and to briefly compare the Armagh flora with that of adjoining 


The total number of plants found in the county, omitting those 
whose claim to be considered native is more than doubtful, is 616. 
There is a poverty of maritime and montane species ; the former is 
of course to be expected; as regards the latter, the scantiness of 


of the southern hills. Out of forty-seven Irish plants of Highland 
type, only four occur in Armagh, and none dh them are confined to 


alpine situations. Galium Bits inhabits only the shores of — 
Neagh (50 ft. ——— father Vitis- rend is recorded from the 
northern bogs (50-100 ft.), a s also on the summit of. Slieve 


Gullion (1893 ft.) ; Seaginela pecio ranges from 700 ft. upwards; 
and “ie lacustris in lakes from 200 to 444 ft. Not a single 
Hawkweed (excepting of course ene ubiquitous H. Pilosella) was 
found in ‘the county, although me least fourteen species inhabit the 
adjoining granite hills of Mour Of Mr. Watson’s Atlantic type, 
Co. Armagh possesses only ac ve out of forty-one Irish species— 
Sedum anglicum, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Pinguicula lusitanica, Lastrea 
— Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, Out of ate Irish Ger- 
ants, one only, Orchis pyrantel grows in the c pees 


connecting waters: includes the it ‘of I es gh Neagh, and the 
banks of the Bann, Newry Canal, Blackwater, and Uleter Canal. 
Cicuta, Ginanthe fistulosa, Butomus, and Sagittaria are abundant 


of Lough Neagh. Confined to this Ems 6 and occurring in some 
Siuaiants therein, are Drosera anglica, D. intermedia, Vaccinium 
Oxycoccos, Rhynchospora alba, Osmunda rome Ulex Galli is con- 


240 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF ©0. ARMAGH. 


spicuously absent. (8) Limestone region: embraces the Carboni- 
ferous lime i 


rest of the county. (4) Silurian region: extends over the whole 
central and S.W. portions of the county; surface undulating and 
well tilled; flora generally uninteresting, but it was here that 
Carex rhynchophysa was obtained. Lepidium Smithii, unknown 
further north, is common on this area; Linaria vulgaris becomes 


generally wn ion: 
includes the granite and basalt hills of the §.E. Though an 
elevation of nearly 1900 ft. is reached, alpine plants are almost 


sent. mpared with the northe bog district, we find Ulex 
europeus replaced here by U. Gallii, and Myosotis palust M 
* the higher cultivated ground is full of Raphanus Rapha- 


nistrum, Lotus major, and Chrysanthemum segetum, which are some- 
what rare further north; Viola tricolor, Teucrium Scorodonia, Jasione 
montana, Lepidium Smithii, are also characteristic plants 

hores he e 


An interesting point in the flora of Armagh is the occurrence 
throughout the county of several species widely distributed through 
the centre and south of Ireland, but of extreme rarity in the north- 
east and north-west (districts 11 and 12); such are Hypericum 
dubium, Thrincia hirta, Festuea rigida. Two more, Ranunculus 
circinatus and Orchis pyramidalis, with a more limited distribution 
in Armagh, are algo characteristic plants of the centre and south of 
Ireland, and rare in, or absent from, the north, 

As regards the rarer plants of the county, I have already laid 
before the readers of this Journal (1892, p. 272; 1898, p. 88) some 
account of the two most interesting plants obtained, namely, Spi- 
ranthes Fomanzofiana and Carex rhynchophysa ; respecting which 


many British herbaria, unless discovered in other loca 
nother interesting addition to the flora of A is Calama- 
grostis Hookeri Syme, the Deyeuxia neglecta var. b don 


islands of Loug Neagh; in a future paper I hope to deal with the 
distribution of this and other Lough Neagh plants in detail; suffice 


IN MEMORY OF ROBERT HOLLAND. 241 


for the present to say that it had been found in five stations 

altogether—two on the Co. Antrim shores of the lake, one in 

Derry, and two in jllpatie, In three of these stations the plant 
p ‘ ; 


fr hree feet ma ; In. a spac few square yards 
I gathered two hundred stems; the greater aeleng of these speci- 
mens have since been distributed through the two Exchange Clubs 


Among the other more interesting addons to the flora of 


restricted range in the South of Bupland sea biennis, a colonist 
at Armagh, where it was first observed by Mr. A. G. More some 
years ago; Linaria repens, 2s y in §. Armagh, six miles N.W. 
of Killowen, in Co. Down, its only other station in Ulster; Statice 
bahusiensis, a ndant in estuary of Newry River; Potamogeton 
eee ae gs and P, filiformis, in Lough Neagh—the latter 


dies Savii, estuary of Newry River; Festuca sylvatica, woods at 
Tanderagee ; and Chara polyacantha, lake and pools at Lou ughgall, 
near Armagh, Other additions to the flora, which, though not 
uncommon plants in England, are very rare or local in Ireland, are 
* Ranunculus circinatus, Fumaria densiflora, Diplotaxis muralis, Silene 


best were Barbarea arcuata and B. iisoadaieca recorded from near 

Armagh by Mr. More nearly forty years ago, which still flourish in 

their old cared and Lathyrus palustris, found some years ago by 

Re on islets at the mouth of the Closet River, in 

Lough Ne gh, ake I saw it in abundance, as well as on the 
banks of the same ——— 


IN MEMORY OF ROBERT HOLLAND, 
Ir was in 1865 or eae that I made the acquaintance of Robert 
High 


olland. I was then studying medicine at Hig Wycombe, and 
devoting my leisure to Britis h botany. Being anxious to see ag 

any plan possible in a living state, I asked a 
correspondent, Mr. Le Grindon, if ae eg send me | Ge 


JOURNAL OF ares 31, [Ave. 18 


242 IN MEMORY OF ROBERT HOLLAND, 


specimens, with a friendly letter which was the foundation of our 
subsequent friendship. 

Robert Holland, although born at Peckham (on the 2nd of 
August, 1829), belonged to a well-known Cheshire family—that, 
i i i *. His ancestor 


He had studied agriculture at Cirencester, under Prof. Buckman, 
and, at his father’s death, had settled down to farming. Natural 


thamian rather than Babingtonian, but for many years he 


_ One result of my visit to Mobberley in 1868 was the most 
important work with which Mr. Holland’s name is associated—the 


; or 1869, p. 32. Our collection grew beyond our expecta- 
tions, and the work was accepted by the English Dialect Society ; 
but it was not until 1878 that the first part made its appearance, 


: Wl a n important 
contribution ; and it is to be feared that his death will delay its 
completion. 

_ Mr. Holland had a remarkable knowledge of Cheshire customs, 
dialect, and folk-lore. He contributed valuable notes to a volume of 


80; and in 5 the same Society published hi 
; published his 
Glossary of Words used in the County of Chester, a great advance on 


audience, He was extremely fond of his gard 
: garden, and had a 
practical knowledge of agricultural matters, on which account he 


MR. J. G. BAKER, F.R.S. 243 


was appointed rs botanist and examiner of seeds to the 
Cheshire Agricultural Society. 

In 1875 the pre oailing east depression and the expense 
attendant on bringing up a numerous family co ae ei Mr. Holland 
to leave Mobberley. He became F tansiat to Sir Richard Brooke at 
Norton Priory, near Halton,—one of the places, naturally beautiful, 
which have been ruined and devastated by the noxious vapours 

i th 


no re expect any . But the end 

suddenly. On the 16th of July, Mr. Holland was talking to a 
signalman on the railway near Acton Grange, when he fell to the 
ground, a nd on being raised, life was found to be extinct. Man 
besides the writer of this notice have lost in Robert Holland a genial 
companion and a true friend. James Bairren. 


MR. J. G. BAKER, F.R.S. 


We trust that it may be very many years before it will become 
necessary to give in this Journal any estimate of the life-work of 
My. 5. @. Baker, and that the record of such work may be far more 
lengthy than it is at present before it arrives at its close. But w 
think that many of our readers who have not the happiness of 

rR 3 


244 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


(Continued from p. 152.) 


Peucedanum officinale L. Sp. Pl. 245 (1758). 1562. “IT 
found a root of it at saynt Vincentis rock a litle from Bristow.’— 
Turn. ii. 88, back. 


P. palustre Moench, er 82 (1784). ne ‘Tn paludi- 
bus, prope Dine. Tofield.”—Huds. 
sati oa teak | & Hook, , Gen. P Pl.i i. 690 0 (1867). 1562. 


not far fr6 Newna Milles,”— ; 
Heracleum Sphondylium L. Sp. Pl. 249 (1758). 1548. 
“ gses im watery middowes.”—Turn. Nam mes, G vy. 
us Carota L. Sp. Pl. 242 ( (1753), 1562. « Ye wild 
carot is foud abrode in ye feldes. "—Tur 
gummifer Lam. Dict. i. 634 (1788), 1796. “TI first 
gathered this Lee on the western coast of Cornwall. ”— Withering 
n Bot. Arr. ed. 3, 290, 
Ciucalis daucoides L, Sp. Pl. 241 (1758). See Nes the 
corn ied ae age oe and a 2 Boge s.).—R. C. 0. 81. 
sis Hu 98 (1762). 1666. « eis wheat 
plentifully, Seer Petersfield (Hants). Mr, Goodyer, who ecall’d it 
Caucalis pumila segetum.’’—Merr rett, 24, 
‘ riscus Huds. i. 99 (1762). 1639. Johns. Kent, 17. 
(‘‘ Caucalis semine aspero floseulis subrubentibus.’ 
- nodosa Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i, 192 (1772). 1629. ea 
Kent, 9. “Upon ne havik about S. James and Picadilla. 


Thys Wild pen persnepe groweth Petey besyde Cabrydge in a lane 
i“ n. i. 80, back, 


Helix L. Sp. Pl. he tae 1538. ‘Hederam 
greci csson sion angli iy. — 
cica L. Sp. Pi. lis (1758). 1670. “On the 
RNarthwest-end « of the highest of Cheviot-hills.” —Ray, Cat. 839. 
sanguinea L, Sp. Pl. 117 (1758). 1548, ‘*Plentuous in 
Englande, ”—Turn. Names, C 
Ado: Moschatellina L. Sp. Pl. 867 (1758). 1570. “In 
sylvosis et umbrosigs frigidiuseulig Angliw.”—Lob. Ady. 300, 
Sambucus nigra L. Sp. Pl, 269 (1758). 1538. ‘Sambucus 
- ab anglis an Elder tree . . +» vocatur.”—Turn, Lib, 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, 245 


S. Ebulus L. Sp. Pl. 269 (1758). 1548. ‘‘Groweth abrode 
in Cambryge fieldes i z Bie 1 entie.”"—Turn. Names, C viij. 
Vib 


. senticetis & rt passim. »_Lob, Ady. 436. ‘In the 

chalkie groundes of Kent, about Cobham, paee nee and Graves- 
end, and al the tract to Ganterburie.” er. 180 

Linnea borealis L. Sp. Pl. 631 1 (1758). 1798. Found by 
Prof. James Beattie “for the first time in Britain in an old fir 
wood at Mearns, near Aberdeen,” and exhibited at the Linnean 
Society, 2 June, 1795.—See Linn. Trans. iii. 8383. 

Lonicera Periclymenum L. Sp. Pl. 178 (1753). 1548. 
‘‘ Wodbyne is commune in every W wodde.”’—Turn. Names, F 3j. 

Rubia peregrina L. Sp. Pl. 109 (1753). 1562. ‘In the 
yle of Wyght” aie a dant Wynchester in the way to South- 
ampton.”’—Turn. ii. 118 r. George Bowles found it growing 
wilde on Saint Vincents pa nae out of the cliffes a the rocks of 
Aberdovie in Merionethshire.”—Ger. em. 1120 (1638 

G 


aa 
named.... in the North countrey Majilnas heire. Shas N ames, 
D ij, ba ck. 
G. erectum Huds. i. 56 (1762). 1762. ‘In pascuis montosis 
humidiusculis.”,—Huds. l.c. e ac Common, Norfolk. Mr. 
Bryant.’’—With. Bot. Arr. ed. 2, 152 (1787). 

G. Mollugo L. Sp. Pl. 107 (ees. 1676. ‘‘Mollugo vulgatior 
herbariorum .... Collibus incultis & eer ie “‘marginibus 
.... Anglie plurima.”—Lob. Stirp. Hist. 

G. pace L. Sp. Pl. 107 Mids 1634. ‘ Galium album 


Cs 
G. sriveates Poll. Fl. Palat. i. “1 (1776). 1762. ‘In 
montibus proee Kendal, in comitatu Westmorelandico.”—Huds. 
i. 57 (pusillu 
C. palustre L. L. ED. Pl. 105 (1753). 1632. Johns. Kent, 24. 
¢. L. Sp. Pl. 106 (1753). 1724. “On the Lower 
Bog at Chiselhurst. Mr. J. Sherard. "—Ray, Syn. ii. 225. ‘This 
I found on ye bogs t  aauacaln ”__Buddle in Sloane Herb. exxi. 
fol. 2 and 10 (cire. 1 
anglicum Hinds, ed. 2, 69 (1778). 1690. ‘Found at 
Hackney on a Wall,” by William Sherard.—Ray, Syn. i. 287 


(Aparine minima). 
G. Vaillantii DO. Fl. Fr. iv. 268 (1815). 1844. eee in 
Sept. 1844 by G. 8. Gibson near Saffron Walden. —Phytol. i. 1123. 


. Aparine L. Sp. Pl. 108 (1753). 1538. pte te ae 
vocatur ab anglis Goosgyrs aut Gooshareth,”—Turn. Lib, 


246 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


shyre.”—Turn. i. 86 (1551). 

, Valeriana dioica L. Sp. Pl. 81 (1758). 1597. “In moist 
places hard to river sides.””—Ger. 918 (Fig. 917, 8). “In humidis 
pratis & sylvis.”—Johns. Merc. Bot. 76 (1684). 

V. officinalis L. Sp. Pl. 81 (1758). 1548. “About water 
sydes and in the moyst plasshes,” &c.—Turn. N ames, F iij. 
Valerianella olitoria Poll. Fl. Palat. i. 30 (1776). 1570. 

“‘Sexpe nobis visa et enata in Anglia.”’—Lob. Adv. 819. 1597. 

ldes.”’— 


V. carinata Lois. Not. 149 (1810). 1835. ‘Gathered by 
Mr. E. Forster at Ongar, in Essex.”— Woods in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
Xvi. 483, 


St. ans in Hertfordshire; Mr. Dale.’— y, Syn. iii. : 
‘‘Landulph, Cornwall. Rey. R. T. Bree.”—Hook. Fl. Br. ed. 8, 
24 (1885). 

V. dentata Poll. Fl. Palat. i. 80 (1776). 1804. “Found in 
a by Mr. E. Forster, jun., in 1799.”—Sm. Fl. Brit. iii, 


_Dipsacus sylvestris Huds, i. 49 (1762). 1538. “ Dipsacos 
latine labrai. veneris aut lavacrii veneris dicitur... . anglorum 
a —Tu i 


3. 
3» Columbaria L. Sp. Pl. 99 (1753). 1629. ‘Scabiosa 
oe Kent, 8. But see fig, "asd desc., Ger. 682, 2 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 247 


S. arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 99 (1758). 1568. ‘Groweth amongest 
y® corne.”—Turn. iii. 

Eupatorium cannabin L. Sp. Pl. 838 (1753). st 
‘* Groweth sore " estes a aul hath leaves lyke Hemp.”’—Tur 
Names, H ij, 

Solidago eat Sp. Pl. 880 (1753). 1570. “ Anglize 
Pte ee Septentrionalibus : nemorosis et saltuosis opacis.” aLob. 
Ady. 125. ‘In Hampsteed wood,” &¢.—Ger. 349. 

Bellis perennis L. Sp. Pl. 886 (1753). 1538. ‘Bellis... 
est illa herba quam vocamus a Dasy.”—Turn. Lib. ‘In North- 
umberlande men call thys a] a banwurt.’’—Turn. i. 81 (1551). 

Aster Tripolium L. Sp. Pl. 872 (1758). 1570. ‘ Scatent 

. hac Norbonica, et oe littora & fluminum crepidines.’’— 
Lob. Adv. 123. “ By the ‘fort against ecu teaikt (Kent), &¢.— 


7). 

A. Linosyris Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erfurt. 151 (1800). ree 
‘Discovered in September, 1812, by the Rev. Charles Holbech, o 
Farnborough, Warwickshire, . . . on the rocky cliff of caine sb 
Devon.” —E. B. 2505. 

Erigeron acre L. Sp. Pl. 863 meee 1632. — 
‘Kent,’ p. 88 (* Conyza ccerulea acris’’). cian first observed it . 
by Farmingham in in Kent.”—Johnson, Ger. em. 485. 

E. alpinum L. Sp. Pl. 864 (17538). 1790. Found by James 
Dickson in 1789 on Ben Lawers.—Dicks. Crypt. Fase. ii, 29; and 
Trans. Linn. ii. 288. 

Filago germanica L. Sp. P ed. 2, 1811 (1762). 1562. 
‘<7 have sene the herbe . . . in an places of Englande.”—Turn. 
ii. 11, back ida a figur é). 

apic a G. i. Sm. Phytol. ii. 575 (1846). 1846. Found 
by Rev. G. wh ‘Smith “ at Cantley, Rossington, &c., near Doncaster.” 

—Phytol. / 

F. spat athulata Presl, 8 Prag. 99 we 1848. Found 
(1843-4) by Mr. G. 8. Gibson near Saffron Walden, Essex, and 
described sche F.Jd hale Phviak ill. 216. 

F. ma Ir. ed. 1, 99 (1822). 1632. Johnson, 
ae - 81. ** About Gaming” (Cambs).—R. C. C. 64 (1660). 

F. gallica L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2 1812 (1762). 1696. ‘‘ Among 
corn in sandy grounds shoe avap$ sia ecopen in Essex, plenti- 
fully. Mr. Dale.”—Ray, Syn 

Antennaria dioica baste. iced ii. 410, t. 167 (1791). 1641. 
«‘Gnaphalium montanum album.”—Johns. Mere. Bot. pee p. 22. 
«Neer Donkester. Mr. Stonehouse.’’—How, Phyt. 48 (1650). 

Gnaphalium ee ae Sp. Pl. 856 (1758). 1597. 
‘Upon drie sandie banks.” 

G. sylvaticum L. Sp. Pl. 856 (1758). 1548. Perio 
: . Ghafweede .. . . called in Yorkeshyre cudweede.’ 

Names, Ci. “Tertio a Londino miliari opace sylve clivus ‘iaeltam 


0). 

norvegicum Gunn. Fl. Norveg. (1772). 1777. As a 
variety of G. sylvaticum, occurring “ upon the highland moun- 
tains,’ *_Lightf, Fl, Scot. 472. Sce Sm. Fi, Brit, 11. 870. 


248 SHORT NOTES, 


G. supinum L. Syst. ed. xii, ” 234 = eee) 1777. “Upon 
the tops of the Rickluat mountain r, Stuart.”—Lightf, 
cot. 471 


Inula tlie: L. Sp. Pl. 881 —— 1570. ‘In pratis 
Villarum & prediorum Anglie.”—Lob. Ady. 246. « In the fieldes 
as you go from Dunstable to Puddlohiil.” . we —Ger. 649 (1597). 

I. Conyza DC. Prod. v. 464 (1886). 1597. ‘In divers places 

g —Ger. 647 


I. salicina L. Sp. Pl. 882 (1753). 1865. Found by Dr. D. 
Moore, in June, 1843, on the shore of Lough Derg, Co. Galway.— 
Journ. Bot. 1865, 334. 

crithm aoe Sp. Pl. 883 (1753). 1597. «In the mirie 
arsh in the yle of vane ed as you go from the Kings ferrie to 
Sherland house.”"—Ger 
icaria apatite Gacrin, Poa! li. 461 (1791). 1597. 
“In everie waterie . “In 8. James his Parke, 
Tuthill fields, &¢.”—Ger. m. 482 "(1608 

P, Sa Gaertn. Froct, li. 461 (1791). 1570. ‘In Benard 

eyn ara et fossis, altero a Londino lapide,” —Lob. Adv. 145 
** At Islington by London.” —Ger 391, 

Bidens cernua L. Sp. Pl. 83g (1753), wet ‘“‘In Anglia 
ubique udorum, presertim Londoni.” —Lob. 227. 

tripartita L. Sp. Pl. 838 (1758). 1629. ' Fohisosi, ‘ Kent,’ 
mm” 


ag Millefolium 1, Sp. Pl. 899 (1753). sep ** Mille- 
folium . . , ab anglis .. . Yarow. ”’—Turn, Libellu 

ke Ptar mica L. Sp. Pl. g9g (1753). 1597, « “In the three | 
great fieldes next adjoining to a village neere London called 
Kentish towne,” &c, —Ger 

Diotis candidissima, f. Fl. Atl. ii, 261 (1798), 1597. 
‘At a place called Merezy, sxe miles from Colchester, neere unto 
the sea side,”—Ger. 518, 

Anthemis Cotula Sp. Pl. . A en 1597. ‘In Corne 
fields sr mv pathwaies,”—Ger 

vensis L. Sp. Pl. 894 1768) wtf “* White Ox eye. 

ubieind: 'Peckthatn Fields.”— Pet, in ae : 

A. nobilis L, Sp. Pl. 894 (1753). 1548, “Groweth on 

yehmund grene and in epreare [Hounslow] heth in great 
plentis "—Turn. Nameg 


Ne be continued.) 
Prone te en aes 


SHORT NOTES ‘ * 


Lar 8 TuBERosus Linn,.—OQn June 18th I fou nd growing, 
near ghalyes Somersetshire, & plant of Lath) yrus Saleh osus. I only 
noticed one plant, whi ch attracted m my attention by its eins 


€ flowers, a tsa not near dwelline. shel 
Cec, H, Sp. Pez any dwelling-house or garden. 


SHORT NOTES. 249 


HAE RHAMNOIDES IN Somerset.-—This occurs in the church- 


aaah and with more than a mile of water between. I found it 
ae there in a few places, and evidently not long fossa 
a 1892; but as it has been recognised b mber of 


ete lub who knows its habits on the Lincolnshire sanidhille, it will 
probably be extir pated as most undesirable on the golf links. 
The seeds must have been carried by birds from the few shrubs at 
Stert, as there is no land communication for very many miles, and 


set of 

current directly from one shore to the other. Fieldfares and 

thrushes, which feed rsdn on the yellow berries in hard winters 
t 


Fe OLLA CAROLINIANA. i kboak a week ago I was fortunate enough 
to find Azolla caroliniana fruiting abundantly in the open air, in a 
friend’s garden re ope Co. Wicklow. The plants were 


Ww 

Nympheas and other obtain, and were placed in a pond in the 

open. They multiplied with great rapidity, and per to be aria 

out almost in cartloads, having become a perfect nuisance 

wey recently placed in a shallow, peaty pool, iiioh with tho ary 
er has been reduced to a few inches in de epth of water. Here 

‘oy well-developed individual is producing microsporangia in 

absadance ; the macrosporangia I have not yet detected.—Grexn- 

p Pim. 


ESEX Prants.—It may be worth noting that Sagittaria 
sagittafolia and pape pectinatus are both exceedingly abun- 
dant this year the Regent’s Canal, near Cumberland Basin, 
Regent’s Park. “The locality is not 1 arepti for either cares in 
Trimen — Dyer’s Flora of Middlesex.—Atrrep W. Brn 

Rue prraLis In W, Kent.—This species, it given ind ithe 
aveiaon: of the county in Topographical Botany, was found in ditches 
at Port Victoria, on June 28th, by Captain Wolley Dod and myself. 

cole S Tierra 


Eri in Dorser.—During a recent walk from 
Corfe Cass: 6 Studland, in company with the Rey. H. F. Linton, 
we came across Hriophorum gracile in some abidtdatioe. The first 
specimen, found by Mr. Linton, wa S growing, as usual, in about 
two feet of water; a little farther along the road, however, I found 
the plant in considerable abundance in a spongy bog which is 
usually too soft to bear treading upon, but which faking the recent 
dry season has become sufficiently firm to walk across. The plant 


/ 


250 SHORT NOTES. 


was easily recognisable at a distance by its tall, slender stems 
and smaller tufts of hairs, which seem regularly truncate at the 
larger end, like an artist’s badger brush. This is, I believe, the 
first record of the occurrence of the plant in Dorsetshire. On the 
slope of the chalk down between Corfe Castle and Studland I found 
the rare moss Seligeria paucifolia sparingly on loose chalk stones. 
This plant has not, I believe, been before recorded for this county. 
—KE. M. Houmezs. 


C 
I was greatly interested by receiving for identification from m 
y 


correspondent Mrs. Leebody, of Londonderry, a fresh specimen of 
Spiranthes nzoffiana, collected near Kilrea, Co. erry. In 
response to a request for particulars respecting this important find, 
Mrs. Leebody writes :— On July 15th, while collecting plants on 
the Derry bank of the river Bann, near Kilrea, I was struck with 

pearance of a plant which seemed to be one of the Habenaria, 


the portions of bog-oak projecting into the river. It apparently 
has been little cultivated, but kept for pasture or meadow.” The 


Bann. The plant should certainly be looked for on the bogs of 
North Tyrone and West Antrim.—-R. Luoyp Prazerr, 


JUNIPERUS INTERMEDIA - IN Sco p.—Last autumn Mr. 
Duncan s from the Island of Scarp, O Hebrides, five 
gatherings of specimens of .J uniperus. At once I saw they in- 


ce 
cluded J. communis L. and J. nana Willd., and the others to 
pected to be J. intermedia Schur. Lately I have compared these 
gatherings at Kew with the Austrian Tyrol and Transylvanian 
plant, and consider they represent the same form. Wettstein 
(Sitzb. Wien Akad. math. nat. x¢vi. p. 883 (1887)) considers it 
to be communis x nana; this may be, but it fruits freely, and 
I should be more inclined to put it as a variety to communis, as 
Nyman does in his Conspectus Fl. Europ, p. 676 (1881).—Arruur 
Beyyerr. 
Dvmont1a Friirormtis yar, (p. 167).—In Mr. Harvey Gibson’s 
paper on New Zealand Algw apropos of Dumontia filiformis (Lynb.) 
Grey. var.? the following sentence occurs :—* Prof. Schmitz, to 


whom I sent a Specimen, gave it as his opinion that it was near 


Nemastuma.” Mr, Gibson wishes us to state that he misunderstood 


BEITRAGE ZUR MORPHOLOGIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE, ETC, 251 


Prof. Schmitz'’s remarks on the specimen sent him, and that the 
sentence ought to read:—* Prof. Schmitz, to whom I sent a 
specimen, gave his opinion on it in the ym an words :——‘ Der 
Thallusbau erinnert sehr an Nemastoma? palmata, Harv. rye. 
Aust. 262, so dass wohl beide Arten zu derselben Gattung gehéren 
diirften, doch gehoren sie meines pong keinenfalls zu Nema- 
stoma.’”’ . (The structure of the thallus reminds one very much of 
Nemastoma? palmata Harv. Phyec. Aust. 262, so that both species 
might very well belong to the same genus, but in my view they do 
not by any means belong to Nemastoma.) 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


Beitriige zur Mor gon cere Ph Jd der if reenentans Herausgeg. 
von Dr. A. Zim d. I. pp. 822; with 5 plates 
oi 23 figures in ohh: ear Daatiads, 1893. H. Laupp. 


THE sie s now before us contains fifteen communications, of 
various foie on the microscopic structure and contents of the 
plant-cell. For the greater number Dr. Zimmermann himself i = 
responsible. Thus of the three “ Hefts," Nos. ‘ 
entirely his, oe of the seven articles in No. III. he he eva 
four and C. Correns two, a shorter one on the alga ratte 
Sali ons N rai and a longer on the minute structure o 
brane in the Chlorophycea: and Floridea. Fin ally, K. Schi ra has a 
note on some cuticular formations in the epidermis of the fruit of 
the liliaceous plant, Rohdea japonica. 

The book begins with a brief historic note on plasma con- 
nection, in which Dr. Zimmermann points out that while we owe 
the first published account to Tangl, it is evident from some notes 
and drawings found at Tubingen among Hofmeister’s effects, that 


pit-closing membrane in the osperm he author thinks it 
act of piety to make this more generally known, and therefore 
exactly reproduces Hofmeister’s figures of sections of th do 


mechanical oe ‘and #3 haga of the leaf-trace bias but 
not of ae cauline, of Tradescantia SE etc itiae 5 a discolor, and 


252 BEITRAGE ZUR MORPHOLOGIE UND PHYSIOLOGIE, ETC. 


which is, however, not yet clear. xperiments only gave negative 
1; 


c 
defined chromatophores which on treating with iron solution 
become chloroplasts, growing considerably as well as ecoming 
green. In the case of strong chlorosis it was often only possible to 
make out the chromatophores by aid of suitable stains 


not only unable to assimilate the carbonic acid of the atmosphere, 
but will not even form starch when supplied with a sugar solution; 
at any rate, will only do so in a very limited degree. 


spherical in form, or, in one case, the young leaves of Polypodium 
tricides, drawn out into rod-like structures. In size itis considerably 
smaller than the chloroplasts, but varies according to the species 


wide distribution, occu m families of Dicotyledons 
and Monocotyledons, in @) yptomeria elegans among the Conifere, 
Ceratozamia mexicana among the C d in five genera of true 
ferns. Its presence in the sses is uncertain, and in con- 


8 
contents of this interesting volume. For the rest we will only say 
that in two articles Dr. Zimmermann discusses the protein crystal- 
loid, its occurrence in various parts of the cell, and its distribution 


some cystolith-like swellings of the cell-wall in the epidermis of 
Cyperus alternifolius, composed of silica and cellulose; and on the 


BRITISH FOREST TREES, 2538 


secretion of spheroids of hie cheiphebe! in the cells of an un- 
determined species of Cyperu 

e may add, in A ig that the text and illustrations are 
in every way satisfactory. AZ Bi Fase. 


ee ae Trees and their sylvicultural characteristics and treat- 
By Joun Nispet, D. dic., of the Indian Forest Service. 
ee ia & Co. Pp. 852, 8vo. Price 6s. n 


sBET is undoubtedly justified in the rigeaiien in the 
Preface to this work that sylviculture is as yet but little under- 
stood in Britain. It may also be inevitable that such a work must 
at present ‘‘be, to a considerable extent, a compilation from the 
best German sources,”’ and not “ based - long experience in the 
treatment of forests in Britain” ; but we are hardly prepared to 
te 


ment of woodland in this country 
he author’s two main contentions are, ‘‘ /irstly, that in general 
the plantations are not quite so dense as they should be in o order to 


effect to.’’ These opinions "he maintains, though ‘ takin ng into 
consideration the damper insular climate of Britain, in which the 


ven" ‘ thé ‘best German sources”’ of information seem any- 
thing but infallible, judging from the statements (p. 2) that the 
hornbeam was “introduced before the end of the fifteenth century,” 
the juniper andthe holly “during the sixteenth,” and the maple 
and buckthorn “during the seventeenth”’; that t England and Wales 
are “ the richest countries in coal in the whole world” (p. 9); and 
that ‘‘ ash, maple, sycamore and elm, require a moderate quantity 
of lime in the soil, and beech, hornbeam, oak, as also larch and 
Austrian pine, thrive ae on soils that have at least some lime in 


of growth in cubic contents ; but we cannot help suspecting that 
he is thinking of a soil somewhat superior to that usually devoted 
to woodland in England. What is, however, a more vital objection 


254 BULBOUS IRISES. 


to his proposal, on his own principle, is the difficulty in finding a 
market for spruce timber. Where larch, Douglas fir, pine, or even 
silver fir can be grown, spruce would probably be as neglected as 
as it now is in Sweden. 

r. Nisbet does not put forward his work as an elementary 
manual for students, but ‘for the use of landowners and of those 


conservatism will no doubt prevent them from accepting his con- 
clusions in too wholesale a manner. G. S. Bouxerr. 


Bulbous Irises. By Prof. Micuarr Foster, ‘Secretary R.8., &c. 
8vo, 85 pages, 58 woodcuts. Published by the Royal Horti- 
cultural Society, 117, Victoria Street, S.W. 5s. 


WE now know a great deal more about the bulbous Irises than 

we did when I monographed them in this J ournal more than 

twenty years ago. And we may say about Irises emphativally 

what holds good more or less for all petaloid monocotyledons, that 
; ; dried : 


and several of them are very ornamental. There were two 
splendid beds of Iris Xiphion in flower at Kew this summer near 
the Cactus-house, showing great variety of colour, and the thousand 
bulbs only cost eight shillings; and two similar beds of [ris wiphi- 
oides, which flowered a fortnight later and only cost double the 
price of the others, 

Professor Foster gives first a popular account of the different 
species and their cultural requirements, and afterwards a botanical 
synopsis of their distinctive characters and a clavis, He gives 

any woodcuts of the flowers, and in the synopsis 


bulb be wanted, we may perhaps say it is a specially-fed bud which 
Separates from the mother stock, in order to live an independent 
existence.” This of course comprehends far more than botanists 
erm. There i 


255 | 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
als of Botany (June). — D. H. Campbell, ‘ Development of 
uae “Aliculoides fe pl.). — J. G. Baker, ‘ Synopsis of Genera and 
Species of Musee.’ — P. Groom, —— Rafflesiana’ (1 pl.).— 


T. Bro ry 
Foliage- eorse. — W.B. Hemsley & A. Pa feu oeoch ‘ The genus 
os be kee opin 


ny oa 

Guatemala’ (3 pl.).—R. H. True, ‘ Development of the Caryopsis ’ 
(3 pl.).—G. F. Atkinson, ‘ eae of organism causing leguminous 
tubercles’ (cont.). — B. L a ae & H. E. Seaton, Allium Hen- 
dersont & Calochortus iat p. 

Botanical Magazine (Tokio) a mere 10). R. Yatabe, Hria 
luchuensis, Bs n. 

Bot. Zeituny (July 16).—L. Jost, ‘Ueber Beziehungen zwischen 


cogniti.’ — P. Clerbois et A. sion, ‘ Phaseum Floerkeanum en 
Belgique.’ — F. Crépin, ‘ “xp Samat de I’ individu dans l’étude des 
Roses.’ — C, H. Delagne, ‘ Lejeunea culcarea & L. Rosettiana’ — T. 
Du a ‘Charles Antoine Strail’ (d. Mar. 25). — Id., ‘Alphonse 
DeCandolle.’—L. Errera, ‘ Fréderic Christian Schiibeler’ (d." 1892). 

E wl. Ti orrey Bot. Club (June). — W. ailey & J. F. Collins, 


‘Flora of Block Island.’ — J. F. Collins, ‘ Rhode Island Flora.’— 
S. H. Jelliffe, ‘ Plants in Ridgewood Water Su mpplys Brooklyn.’— 
. Ha Istead, ‘Identity of Anthracnose of B and Water- 
melon.’—T. C, Po rter, Aster leiophyllus, sp.n. (1 p 
Erythea (July). — J. B. Ellis & B. M. Rete ‘New Cali- 
fornian Fungi.’ — BE. L. Greene, ‘ Novitates Occidentales,’ —S8.B. 
Parish, ‘ New seagate 5) Notholena tenera,’,—O. Kuntze, ‘ Remarks 
on the Genoa Con 
Gardeners’ REA (June 24). — Coeloy, yne Clarkei Kranzlin, 
6). 


-n. ; e 
(July 8). M. C. Cooke, ‘Anthracnose of the Vine.’ — (July 15). 
Epidendrum Wendlandianum Kranzlin, sp. n.—(July 22). Aglaonema 
rotundum N. EK. Br., Caladium venosum, N. E. Br., C. rubescens N. E. 


' Tena de Botanique (June 16). — C, Flahault, ‘ Alphonse De 
Candolle.’ — E. Belzung, Bb des Sphérocristaux ies Ku- 
horbes cactiformes.’ — E. Bon ‘Plantes de Tunisie.’ — N, 
Patouillard, ‘Une forme radicicole de 1’ Urocystis Anenones 
(July 1,16). LL. Guignard, ‘Sur le she tule rye de la g ine’ 
(cont.). — F. Jadin, ‘ Dobinea et Podoon.’ — H. Hua, Matias 
(n. gen.) multiflora (Bixinew), 


256 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO, 


Notarisia (No. 3).—P. Pero, ‘ Di aleuni fenomeni biologici delle 
— diatomee.’ 
Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (July 1).— A. Baldacci, «La stazione 
delle’ doline.’—E, Baroni, ‘ Rohdea japonica.’—8, Sommier, ‘ Flora 
‘della regione Obiense inferiore,’ 
0. 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


Tue first three parts of The Genus Masdevallia, by the Marquess 
of Lothian and Miss Woolward, have already been noticed in this 


which has just appeared, derives additional 


striking appearance, will doubtless prove of horticultural value 
here is s oubt as to its native locali it was purchased 


resembles in foliage, though the flowers are quite distinct. It was 
probably imported along with Mr. Bull’s specimens of elephanticeps 

m Ucana, in the province of Santander, in Colombia, The 
delicate fragrance of the flower—an uncommon characteristic 
in the genus—has suggested the name M. fragrans for the plant. 


cation in his Monographie des Orchidées du Brézil. The other 
Species described and figured are M, abbreviata, Jloribunda, guttulata, 
tonocharis, melanopus, militaris, racemosa, and xanthina. 


CORRESPONDENT has pointed out that the Outline Classification 
, to which 


we 

ed last month, besides being based on a very unsatisfactory 
system of classification, positively teems with misprin 8 n. 

e es 0 8 named are the following :—Botr ; 


a 
irr amenage Lygophylles, Canelacer, and Salinicee. The hand- 
a 


k € name of Prof, illiamson’s successor in the chair of 
Botany at Owen’s College, Mr. F. E. eiss. 


oo ar aa 


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The Moyements of Diatoms.—Classification of the Diatomacer, with a C uu: 
- of tt and sata ae pas of Reproduction: — Collectin. 
- Mounting Diatoms. See aie cal Examination of Diatoms. ow to Photorepl ; 
Diatoms. t "Bibliowsa phy. lider 
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257 


SHROPSHIRE: MOSSES. _ 
‘By RB. pz G. Benson. | 


Tus provisional list of Shropshire Mosses is compiled from the 
collections-being made by Mr P. Hamilton, of Shrewsbury (H.), 
Mr. A. W. W ha 


Mr. R. Anslow, and published in the 
Transactions of the Severn Valley Naturalists’ Field Club for 1870 (A.), 
: y Mi ; 


and a few. species collected at Bridg ss Sparkes in 
1878 (S Loealities are given for but the common spe 
nder the numbers of the botanical districts adopted by the Caradoc 


These are—Andreea petrophila, A. Rothii, 
Rhabdoweissia fugax, Dichodontium Slavescens, Dicranum fuscescens, 


* 


gracile, Webera elongata, Bryum alpinum, Pogonatum alpinum, -Fissi- 
dens fontanus, F’, osmundioides, Cinclidotus riparius (Mr. Wey 
discovery of which is recorded in Journ. Bot. 1891, 53), Neckera 
crispa, and Hypnum cupressiforme var. ericetorum. 

It is hoped that continued research will make the list worthy of 
so interesting a county. I shall be glad to hear of further records 


Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. J. EB. Bagnall and others have rendered 
generous help on several occasions in the identification of species, 
and their kindness is hereby acknowledged. I owe special gratitude 
to Dr. Gowers for his assistance in my bryological studies. 

Sphagnum acutifolium Ehrh. 4. Bomere (in fruit); H. Stiper- 
stones; B. 5. Stapeley Hill (in fruit); H.& B. 8. Cothercot and 
Wilderley (in fruit); B. 9. Longmynd; Shelve; B. 10. Brown 
Clee Hill; W. 11. Wrekin; A. — Var. a. rubellum. 9. Long- 

as-B. 
~ 8. fimbriatum Wils. 7. Whixall Moss; B. 

S. squarrosum Pers. 4. Stiperstones; B. 8. Marl-pits, Pul- 
verbach ; Wilderley (in fruit); B. 9. Longmynd; B. 

- tntermedium Hoffm. 4. Stiperstones; B. 8. Wilderley 
Green (in fruit); H.& B. 9. Longmynd; Stapeley; B. 10. 
Brown Clee Hill; W. : 

S. cuspidatum Ehrh. var. plumosum Nees, Hornsch. 7. Whixall 
Moss; B 
S. subsecundum Nees. 4. Shomere Pool; H. 9, Longmynd ; 

. — Var. contortum Schultz. Frequent. — Var. obesum. 9. Near 
Ratlinghope; B. : 

S. papillosum Lindb. 7. Whixall Moss; B. 8. Wilderley Hill; 

B. 9. Shelve Hill; H. 


Journat or Borany,—Vou. 81. [Sepr. 1893.] 8 


258 SHROPSHIRE MOSSES. 


8. cymbifolium Ehrh. Frequent. — Var. squarrosulum Nees. 
7. Hau ghmond Hill; H. 8. ages ae 

dade petrophila Ehrh. 5. Sta : i. &B. 10. Brown 
_, =< W. Titterstone Clee Hill; Pa 

thit M. rekin; A. (in Severn Valley Trans. 

1870); S (Sept. 1892). = 

Systegium crispum Hedw. 11. Osbaston; A. 

ymnostomum tenue Schrad. 4, Emstry Rough; H. 

G. microstomum Hedw. 4. Near Shomere ee "H. Near Oaks 
H 7. High Ercall and Poynton; A. 8. Pulverbach; B. 
9. Priors Halton, Ludlow; W. 10. Ashford; W. 

Weissia viridula Bri 

W. mucronata B.& 8. 8. Clay-pit near New House, Pulver- 
bach ; 

W. cirrhata Hedw. 

Rhabdoweissia fugax Hedw. 4. Stiperstones; B. 9, Light 
Spout ; bes 

Cynodontium Bruntoni B. & 8. 4. Oaks Wood; Pontesford 
Hill; a Lyd Hole; H. 7. Haughmond Hill; H. 11. Lawrence 
Hill; A. 


_ Dichodontinon pellucidum L. 4. Lyd Hole; Skin Mill (in fruit) ; 
vd ch Stretton; H. 9. Mar shbrook ; : itcliffe 
00. —Var. serratum (D. flavescens Dicks.). ‘4, Lyd Hole; B. 
8. Ohana Stretton; H. 
Dicranella stpieest cs elataSchimp. 8. Church Stretton; H. 
D. squarrosa Schra 4. Stiperstones; B. 8. Church Stretton: 
H. Wilderley and ‘Cotes Hills; B. 9. Longmynd (in fruit) ; 
B. 10. Titterstone; W. 
Dd. cerviculata Hodw. 4, Bomere; H. 7, Whixall; B. 11, 
Wrekin; A. 
D. varia Hedw. 
‘ oe fee Turn. 8. Cothereot Hill; Broomhill ; Pulver- 
ac. . 
D. heteromalla Hedw 
a i alboaniie ‘Turn. 4. Stiperstones; B. Nr, Lyd 


Ho - 
rum L. Freq “see orthophyllum. 8. Frodesley 
Lodes Till: "B. —Var. ifn Milde. Brown Clee Hi Is. Wi 
-m ius Turn. 4. Oaks Wood : Mbermard. B. 8. Church 
Stretton; W. 9. Whiteliffe Wood; W. . Arko re A. 
D. palustre Bry. Brit, (D, Bonjeanii De N ot.). . Shomere . 
fruit); H.. Stiperstones; B, g Wilderley ite B 9. Lon 
mynd; B. 1 ; 12. Titterstone ; 


" W. 
Campylopus flexuosus L. 4, Nr. Lyd Hole; "Lord’s Hill; H. 
Radleth; Vessons (in fruit); B. 
ine C. sil? W. B. & 8. 4. Shelton Rough; H. 12. Titterstone 
Wee Brid. 4. Bomere; H. 8. Nr, Light Spout; B. 
wi. Wre re 


Leucob sea Hampe. 4. Bomere (in rE A. Sho- 
mere ; H, Tonks Wood; B. 7. Hawkstone Park ; 


SHROPSHIRE MOSSES, 259 


Pleuridium nitidum Hedw. 2. Racecourse; H. 8. Broomhill; 
Pulverbach; B. 10. Tinker’s Hill; W. 
a subulatum 
P aiternifolium Kaulf. 4. Nr. Shomere Pool; H. Nr. Oaks 
Hall; B. 11. Lilleshall; A. 
Pe Svharangivm muticum Schreb. 4. Nr. Underdale; H. 7. Nr. 
A. 
Pha on ee Schreb. Frequent. —- Var. Schreberi. 8. 
Castle Pulverbach ; 
P. bryoides Dicks. 11. rig Wood; A. 
Pottia Seas Schwg. 4. Nr. Sharpstones ; H. 8. Pulver- 
bach; B. . Nr. Huck’s wenn Ludlow; W. 
P. Sliiate L. 
P; intermedia Turn. 4. London Road; H. 8. Pulverbach; B. 
P. Wilsont Hook. 8. Pulverbach; B. 
35 Lirisoalate Dicks. 11. Steeraway; A. 
idymodon rubellus B. & S. 
D. luridus Hornsch. 4. Shelton Rough; H. 
D. fleaifolium Dicks. 7. Grinshill; 
D. sinuosus Wils. 10. Hope Gutter ; W. 
Eucladium verticillatum L. 10. Hope Gutter (in fruit) ; 
Dit momallum B, & 8. 4. Hunter’s Wood; Wesson: 
8. Broomhill; B. 9. Ratlinghope; B. Whitcliffe Wood ; 
D., flexicaule Sch. 11. ee A. 
Trichostomum ar ry Brid. 7. Haughmond Hill; H. 10. 
Hope Gutter ; Wooffe Ns 
Barbula aloides Koch. 4. Shelton Rough; H. 8. Pulverbach; 
9. Norbury; B. . Woofferton; Ludlow; W. 
B. muralis L. Gnas —Var. estiva Brid. 7. Quarry; H. 
B. rig ie Dill. 
B. fallax Hedw 
B. rigidula Hedw. 8. Pulverba ch; B. 
B. spadicea Mitt. 4. Pontesford; W. Phillips. 10. Ludlow; W. 
B. cylindrica gia 4. Lyd Hole; B. 10. Titterstone ; W. 


ws 


is Brid. 4. Lyd Hole; B. 
B, Sheberaectpg Schulte, 4, Monkmoor Coppice; H. 8. Pul- 
verbach ; 9. Norbury ; 
B. icles Hedw. 


la Brid. 8. Church Stretton; H. Palverbach ; B. 
9. Mevsiook: a 11. Crudgington ; 
. latifolia es... 4 Shelton ; Saka. H. 9. Halton 
ow. 


et ruralis Li. 


B. intermedia Brid. 7. Haughmond Abbey; H. 8. Pulver- 
10. Wigley; W 


vs W. 

B. papillosa Wils. 9. Prior’s Halton; W. 

Ceratodon purpureus L. 

Encalypta vulgaris Sadik 9. Norbury; B. 11. Leegomery ; 
A. 12. Bridgnorth; S.—Var. y. obtusifolia Braith. 10. Whitton 
Court ; 

s 2 


260 SHROPSHIRE MOSSES, 


. Lon ngden Wood; B. " Ghar ch cute We . The Heath ; 


~  Grimmia apocarpa L. 4. Lyd Hole; B. Sharpstones; H. 
5. Stapeley Hill; H.& B. 7. Haughmond Hill; H. 8. Church 
Stretton; H. Pulverbach; B. 9. Bridges ; Wentnor: B. 10. 
Weckentos Knowle Gate; WL Steeraway; A.—Var. gracilis. 

4. Lyd H ole ; Ao 

G. pulvinata Dill. 

G, contorta Wahl. (G. incurva Br. M. Fl.).. 10. On the granite, 
Titterstone Glee Hill; Rev. A. Ley, 25 May, 1898. This has been 
ed iste . 


8 
G. trichophylla eta 4. Longden (in fruit); Mie 7. Haugh- 
mond Abbey; H. | Balvesbach “Gi (in fruit) ; ; B. 11. Hodnet 


G. montana BL. & S. 18. Wrekin : “B. Verified by Rev. C. H. 
Binstead. 

Racomitrium acteulare L. 4. Lyd Hole; B. 8. Pulverbach; B. 
Church — es 2 Bs Wentnor; B. 10. Titterstone; W. ‘12. 
The Kno ; W. 

R. aie sum A. Braun. 4. Radleth; B. 8. Castle Pulverbach 
(dwarfed feet on boule stone); B. 

- Ri. heterostichum He 

Rh. fasciculare Bebra 8. Pulverbach; B. 10. Titterstone; H. 
11. Wrekin; A. 

R. lanuginosum Brid. 4. Lyd Hole; Oaks Wood; wt i 
B. 8. Broomhill; Cothercot ; B. 10. Titterstone ; H. Bro 
V. 


Hill; 9. Longmynd; B. 10. Titterstone; H. 12. Bridg- 
north ; 8.—Var. ericoides Bry. Kur. 12. Titterstone: W. 

Ptychomitrium polyphyllum B. & S. 4. Oaks Wood; B. 8. 
Broomhill; Church Stretton; B. 9, Bridges ; Ricnnss By" 11, 
Steeraway ; A. - 12. Bridgnor th; 8. 

Amphoridium Mougeotii B. & S. 4. Brook under Pontesford 
Hill;-B. - 8. Church Stretton; H. 18. Wrekin; 

Zygodon viridissimus Brid. 4. Shelton Rough (in fruit) ; H. 
Lyd at E68, oe Wenlock; A. 9. Whitcliffe Wood; 
W - Hope Gutter; 

Uiots crispa Hedw. 5 Ea ayes Coppice; B. 18. Wrekin; A. 

U. crispula Bruch, i Whitcliffe Wood; W. 

Orthotrichum sazatile Brid. vel Schimp. B. M.F. 8. Rockery, 
Pulverbach ; B. 

0. cupulatum Hoftm. 7. High Ercall; A. - 11. Osbaston ; 
Walcot ;- A. 

O. rupestre Schleich. 9, Longmynd; B. 
O. affine Schrad. 


O. diaphanum Schrad 

O. Lyellii H. & T. Tn fruit:—9. Nr. Cold mart 
O. leiocarpum B. & 8. 8, Smetheot Dingle; H. 
0, *aeaee Mont, 4, New Park, Shrewsbury ; H. 


_ SHROPSHIRE MOSSES. 261 


Tetraplodon mnioides L. 10. In Seger between masses of 
gran nite on epee Clee Hill; fev. A. Ley, 25 May, 1898. 
ra | 


Phy petites rte patens Hedw. 2. Racecourse ; io = Mare 
-Pool; H. 9. Nr. Craven Arms; Mr. Stone. * Nr. Bur iB 

Physcomitrium Pa ifurme L. 4, Lineroft Pool; B. nderdsp: 
H. SA rbach; B. 9. Priors Halton; W. 11. Le eegomery; A. 

Bitlindon er ete um C. Muell. 7. Haughmond Hill: i. . 6, 
Chureh. Strett tton ; : 
unaria fasciceulari is Dicks. 

I’. hygrometrica L. 

Bartramia ith yphylla Brid. 8. Ragleth; H. Light Spout;.B. 
- 9. Nr ouse; W. : 
B. pomiformis L. 


L. 

P, calcarea B. & 8. “ee a! Hill (abundant male flowers) ; 
H.& B. 8. Cothercot Hill; 

Breutelia arcuata Dicks. a. ‘Longmynd; Shelve; B. 10. Tit- 
_ terstone 

Or sdindiaa gracile Wils. 7. Hermitage Farm, Ho dine et; H. 

Leptobryum pyriforme Li. 2. Pritchard’s Nursery; H. 10. 
Riverdale; W. 

Webera elongata Hedw. 17. Bury Walls, Hawkstone; H. 9. 
Whitcliffe; W. 

W. nutans Schreb. 

W. carnea L. 4, Shelton Rough; Belvidere Wood; 
cae Tages Soktorel B.. Dr. Burway. 10. Tinker’s Till; W. 

ns Wahl. 


Br fess ag ate Hornsch. 10. Hayton’sBent; W. 8. Church 
Stretton; H. 

B. inclinatum Swartz. = Stapeley Hill; 

B. intermedium W. & ¥ 4, Nr. Bel videre House; H. 10. 
Woofferton; W. 11. Ellerding Common; Limekiln Wood; Ar- 

a. 2 


B. bimum ig a In ewe :—2. Hencote Pool; H. 4. Lin- 
croft Pool; B. ar Redhill ; 

B. hes W.&M. = es Brid. 4. Cemetery ; 
H. 7. Haughmond; 
; alpinum Li. 8. Church Stretton ; H. 


B. 

B. caspiticium L, 

B, argenteum Li. 

B. capillare L. 

B. pallens Swartz. = Nr. Lyd Hole; B. 8. Cothereot Hill; 
B. 9. Minton Beach; B. 10. Brown Clee; W. 11. Arkoll; ry 


B. pseudotriquetr um Hedw. 8. Light Spout Valley; H. 9. 
Minton Beach; B. Shelve; H. 10. Woofferton; W. 12. Tit- 
terstone; W. 

B. roseum Schreb, 7. Haughmond Hill; H. 11. ge ue 
‘Lane ; Cold Hatton Common; Arkoll Hill; A. 12. Bridg 
north; §. 


262 SHROPSHIRE MOSSES, 


Mnium affine Bland. * Minton Beach; B. ree ohm only). 
M. undulatum Hedw. 4. Oaks Wood (in fruit); B 

M. rostratum Schrad. 

M 


- hornum L. 
M. serratum Schrad. 10. Banks of River Ledwych; W. 
M. stellare Hedw. 4. Lyd Hole; H. 9. Whitcliffe Wood; W. 
12. Bridgnorth; §S. 


w. 

M. subglobosum B. & 8. 5. Stapeley Hill; B. 8. Wilderley 
Green; B. 12. Titterstone; W. 

Aulacomnium androgynum ‘i 

A. palustre L, In fruit:—7. Whixall; B. 8. Wilderley Green. 
9. Reinders: B £ 

Tetraphis pellucida L. In fruit:—4. Bomere and Shomere; H. 
7. Nr. Hodnet ; 

Atrichum undulatum L. 

Pogonatum nanum Brid. 4. Westcot. 8. Broomhill; B. 11. 
Isombridge ; Ellerdine Common ; A. 

P. aloides Hedw. 

P. urnigerum i, 9. Church Stretton; H. Longmynd; B. 
11. Arkoll ; 

P. alpinum L. 4. Lord’s Hill; H.& B. 8. Church Stretton ; 
H. 9. Longmynd; pepeley B. nd eee | it. 

Dilestiehiind gracile Menz. 4. Bomere; H. 7. Whixall Moss; 
B. 10. Brown Clee; Rev. 2 Ley. iL. gen ll; A. 


P. formosum edw 

P. piliferum Schreb. 
P. juniperinum Willd 
P. com 


Fissidens br yoides Hedw. 

F, og Hedw. 4, Belvidere Wood; Sutton; H. 11. Arkoll 
Wood ; 

F, Oe Wahl. 4. Belvidere ike H. 11. Limekiln 
Wood; Arkoll; A. 12. Bridgnorth; 8S. — Var. B. fontanus Wils. 
10, Poughn Hill Weir; W. 

F’. osmundioides Hodw: 8. Light Spout; B, Carding Mill 
Valley; W. 

F’. adiantoides Hedw. In fruit :—8. Broomhill; B. 

F, taxifolius L. 4, Belvidere Wood; H. Lyd H ole; B. Min- 
sterley; W. Yelland. 8. Broomhill; B. 9, Whitcliffe; W. 10. 
Haytons Bent; W. 11. Ar koll ; Somerwood; A. 

Schistostega osmundacea Dicks. 8. Broomhill ; 3. 

Cinclidotus Jontinaloides Hedw. 10. River Teme ; W. 

C. ripari ies ge 10. Rivet Teme; W. 


ad Palverbach B. 9. Priors hee W. 10. Hope hn: 
W. 11. Ash-trees nr, Crudgington ; ; A 


SHROPSHIRE MOSSES. 268 


Neckera crispa L. 4, Lyd Hole; Oaks Wood; B. 

N. complanata L. 

Homalia trichomanoides Schreb. 4. Lyd ero Huglith ; B. 
7. Belvidere Wood; H. 8. Pulverbach; B. . Arkoll Wood : 
Dothill; A. 

Pter: ygophyllum lucens Brid. 8. Smethcot Dingle; H. & B. 
11. Limekiln Wood; Arkoll; A. 

Leskea nt dg Ehrht. 4. Monkmoor ; Nobold; H. 10. 

oc W. A. 


Steventon 1. Lawrence Hill; 
achodin reas foe Be Buildwas a See om Pitch- 
ford Park; B. 9. Nr. Downton; W. 0. Hope Gut 


Heterocladium hete1 ‘opterum Bruch, 8. “Smethcot Falls; H.&B. 
10. Titterstone ; 

Thuidium tamariscinvn Hedw. In oh 8 Oaks Wood; B. 

Thamnium alopecurum Li. 4. Lyd Hol 7. Haug mond ; 
Hit -8: Underhill; B. Smethcot Dingle Gin ee fruit); H. & B. 
10. Hope Gutter; W. 12. Bridgnorth; 

Climacium dendroides Lh, 4. Betton Boal; H. Stiperstones; B. 
8. Broomhill; B. Wenlock’s Wood; A. 9. Church Stretton; H. 
10. Woofferton; W. 11. ‘Steeraway ; ; A. 12. Bridgnorth; S. 

ale ; 


Isothecium myurum Poll. 4. Lyd Hole; Huglith; B. 8. Pul- 
verbach; B. 9. Whitcliffe Wood W. 11. Wrekin; A. 

Homalothecium sericeum Schimp. 

Camptothecium ie Dal 

C. nitens Schreb. South-west end of Wrekin; A. 

Airc alison od, te B.& 8. 9: Nr. Lady. Halton. 10. 
Hope Gutter ; 

albicans Neck 4, Underdale and Sutton Road; H. 11. 
d; 


L. 

B. rivulare Bruch. 8. Wilderley Hill; B. 

B. populeum Hedw. 

B. plumosum Swartz. 4. Lyd Hole; B. Rea Brook; H. 
Smethcot; H. Un derhill ; ‘Potierest 'B. peep Stretton ; iL 

Eurhynchium myosuroides L. 4. Oaks Wood ; 4. Haugh- 
mond Hill; H. 8. Smethcot; Church Stretton ; a 9. Whit- 

ad; W. 


atum Hedw 
ee crassinervium Tayl. 9. Whitcliffe Wood; W. 10. Steven- 


"E, piliferum Schreb. 
{. Swartzit Turn. 4. Red d Hill: Radbrook and Meole; H. 9, 
Whitcliffe Wood; W. 10. Hope Gutter ; W. 
FE. ill 


FE, pumilum Wils. 4. Lyd Hole; H. 7. Haughmond ae — 

Rhynchostegium tenellum Dicks. AL Apley Lawn Walls; 

R. confertum Dicks, 

RR. murale Hedw. re Belvidere; H. 8, Pitchford Park; B. 
11, Limekiln Woods; A 


264 SHROPSHIRE MOSSES, 


Rh. ruscifolium Neck Tre 
Plagiothecium latebricola Wils. 4, Lord’s Hill; H. 
P. denticulatum L. 

’. Borrerianum. Spruce os elegans). 4. Lyd Hol ole; H. 
Stiperstones; B. 10. Brown Clee; W. Titterstone Clee H. 
Pig i A, 


atiown Li, 8. Underhill Wood; B. 11. Ellerdine Heath; 
oc A 


P. undulatum L. 4. Hunter’s Wood; Oaks Wood ; Vessons; B. 
7. Hawkstone Park; H. 8, ee Stretton ; H. 9. Whitcliffe 
* ood ; 


A. irriguim Wils. Nr. Pengwern Boat-house; Radbrook : : 
Lord’s Hill; H. 8, Peineinal B. 9. Castle Mill’ Weir, Lud- 


te Wi 
A. riparium L. 2. Heneote a H. 4. Bomere Pool; Mare 
Pool; H. Lincroft Pool; B. 8. Pulverbach; Longden; 10. 
A very complanate form in fruit at Wigley; W. 11. Limekiln — 
ey fies 12. Willey; B. 


maduncum L. 9. Stapeley Hill; B.— Var. Kneiffii. 8. 

witacdey Ga, Marl-pits, Pulverbach ; 'B. 9. Longmynd; B. 

H. ewannulatum Git j Stiperstones; B. In fruit :—s, Wil- 
derley Green ; and 9, Lon ynd; Titterstone ; 


H. 
A. vernicosum Lindl. 8. — a, H. Cothercot Hill ; 
B. 12. Titt tterstone; W. 


e 
- revolvens Swartz. 8. Wilderley Green ( infu) B. Church 
Stretton; W. 9. Nr. Ratlinghope ; Minton ie 
Hi, fluitans Dill. 7. Whixall; B. 10, wn Clee H Hill; W. 
H. uncinatum Hedw. 8. Cothercot HL (in fruit) ; B. 18. 
Between as and Little Wenlock; A. 
m Li, 


Jilicin 

co tas atum Hedw. 4. Lyd Hole — ty H.&.B. 8. 
Smetheote weet B. Light b Spout ; Hope Gutter ; 
Woofferton; W, , Limelan Wood ee 


H, falcatum Bria. 8. Caradoc Hill; H. 9. Longmynd, nr. 
& B. 


C 
. cupressiforme Ly.— ar. 8. tectorum. 7. Grinshill; H.—Var. 
d. = tector. 11. Wrekin; H.—Var. filiforme. rs Oaks Wood; B. 
d; W. 


hitcliffe Woo 
H. resupinatum Wils, 4, ig oe Rough; H. 8. Pulverbach; B. 
H. molluscum Hedw. 4. Lyd ae: B. 8. Smetheote; H. 


9. Nr. — Stretton ; H, 10. Hope ‘Gutter ; W. 11, Lime- 
kiln Wood; A. 19. Titterstone ; W. Bridgnor th; 

H. palustre L, 4: Crowmere ; H. Lyd Hole; Reabrook ; H. 
8. Light Ppows B. aa Gutter ; W. 11. Limekiln Wood ; 
A.—Var. imbricatum, 0 Il Wheel, Ashford ; 


, Hl Somer Myr. ines phum Hedw.), 10, Nr. Lud. 
ow 


= 


FURTHER RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLEs. 265 


Hi. chrysophyllum Brid. 4. Nr. Oaks Hall. 8. Pulverbach ; B. 
11. Limekiln Wood; A. 4. Nr, Shomere Moss; H. 

_ 1. stellatum Schreb. 5. Stapeley Hill; H.& B. 8. Wilderley 
Green; B. Church Stretton; W.&H. In fruit at Minton Beach ; 
B. Shelve; B. 11. Limekiln Wood; A. 

Hi. cordifolium Hedw. 4. Lincroft Pool (in fruit); B. Lord’s 
Hill; Bomere; H. 8, Marl-pits, Pulverbach (in fruit), B. 10. 
Saltmoor; W. 11. Leegomery; A. 

Hl. giganteum Schimp. 8. Wilderley Hill; and 9. Minton 
Beach; B. 

fH. cuspidatum L. Frequent in fruit. 

H. Schreberi Ehrh. In fruit:—4. Hunter's Wood; B. 

H. purum L. In fruit:—4. Pontesford Hill; Westcott; B. 8. 
Pulverbach; B. 9. Whitcliffe Wood; W. 10. Nr. Tenbury; W. - 

A. straminewm Dicks. 4. Stiperstones. 8. Wilderley Green 
(in fruit). 9. Longmynd; B. 

A. scorpioides L. 8. Light Spout; H. 9. Longmynd, nr. Pole; 
Minton Beach; B. 12. Titterstone; W. 

Hylocomium splendens Dill. In fruit:—4. Hunter’s Wood ; 
8. Broomhill; B. 

FH, squarrosum Li. In fruit:—4. Oaks Wood; Westcott; 8. 
Abundantly at Broomhill; B. 

H, loreum I. - Oaks Wood; Vessons; Huglith; B. 8. 
Church Stretton; H. Underhill; B. : 

A. triquetrum L. In fruit :—4. Oaks Wood; 8, Broomhill; B. 


“3 


FURTHER RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLES. 
By E. D. Maraquanp. 


In Mr. A. Somerville’s interesting paper on p. 118, allusion is 
made to the unpublished Flora of Scilly compiled by my old friend 
the late Mr. John Ralfs, of Penzance. Some ten or twelve years 


Ss. 

As there seems but little probability af Ralfs’ Flora of West 
Cornwall ever being published, it may be advisable to print this 
list without any further delay, and so bring the Scillonian Flora up 
to date. I know Ralfs visited the Islands on several occasions, and 
I am almost certain he was there in the year 1852. 

I give the list exactly as I copied it, so far as these additional 
species are concerned. The names in brackets are those of the 
first finders of the species, or perhaps the only ones; in all other 
cases Mr. Ralfs himself is the authority for the localities noted. 
Sometimes no locality is specified, indicating probably that the 
author had not himself met with the plant. 

Under Ulex nanus in Mr, Townsend’s list there is this note ;— 


266 


FURTHER RECORDS FOR THE SCILLY ISLES. 


‘‘ This is undoubtedly U. Gallii, which is common; I believe the 
true U. nanus has foun 


not been 


d in Cornwall.—J. R.”; and there 


is also a note to the effect that the author had searched in vain for 
Acanthus mollis, a plant said to have been ‘* introduced by unknown 
agency into the Isle of St. Agnes, Scilly. 


St. 
Higher 


Ranunculus satin Fries. 
cc. Tresco. 


R. intermedius aang 
Marsh, St. Mary’s. 

R. acris - St. t May om 

R. Ficaria L. ~Com 

renee Shon diy ‘St. oe 8; 

very scarce. 

P. dubium al ag Lam. St. 
Agnes (Tella 

Sinapis arvensis . St. Martin’s. 
+e 


St. 
Near Old 
St. 
C. dunicaL, St. Mary’s. Tresco, 
St. Agn 


Cardamine sylvatica Link, 
"B. 


y 
Barbarea precox rit 
rimsby, 
Cochlearia voficinalis L. 


Viola Pe rae var. Curtisii ores 
Sandhills near New Grim sby, 
Tresco aaainits mare gps 
below School, St. M 


Hypericum pulchrum Li, St. Ma- 
ry’s. 

Lavatera sylvestris Brot. Old 
Grim 


sparingly, 
Oxalis AcetosellaL. St. t. Mary’s. 
Anthyllis Vulneraria L. Common 
(Millett), 


Melilotus arvensis Wall. resco. 

Trifolium suffocatum Ly. Tresco, 
St. cig St. Mary’s. St. 
Martin 

Lotus meena. da Bt. 
Mary’s. Tresco, 


Callitriche Pied ees oor Le Gal. 
e species at St. 
Prat 8 G Jide Mr. Briggs and 
Mr. Hanbur 
Anthriscus sylvestris Hoff. St. 
Mar. 


ary’ 

Galium Mol llugo Li. 

Valerianella Hips pene, St. 
Mary’s; not co 

Scabiosa arvensis Ly 

Carduus nutans 8. St. Mary’s. 

Carlina vulgaris L. 

Inula Helenium L. Field at Old 
res Marsh, St. Mary’s *(Mil- 


2 tripolium hi 


Solidago Virgaurea Li. St. 
M. 
Bar tia Odontites Huds. St. 
Mar 
St. 


Faroe haderifolias L. 
Mary’ 


Mentha Paid L. St. Mary’s, 


near the Giant’s Grave; scarce. 
Holy Vale. 

M. Giteneis L. 8t. Mary’s. 
St. Martin’s, St. Agnes. 
Tr 


esco. 

Marrubium vulgare 

Stachys sylvatica L ‘St. Mary’s. 

Lamium album Li. 

Myosotis versicolor Reich. White 
variety, with p 
Battery Ground, St. Mary’s 

Chenopodium olidum Curt 


C. rubrum L. Old Grimsby, 
Tre 


sco 
Rumex rupestris Gal. The 
Gugh, St. Agnes. 
R. maximus Sele ag 
(fide Mr. Brigy Js). 
Euphorbia Peplis L. St. A 
Woods, 1858. «I have 
searched for itin vain.”’”—J. R, 


St. Mary’s 


ee ee a 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER, 267 


Humulus Lupulus L. St. Mary’s. 
Sparganium ramosum Huds. Bog, 
t. Mary’s. 


Arum maculatum L. Tres 
rie ee perfoliatus Li. "ios 


Butomus umbeliatus Li. (Millett). 

“‘T have failed to find this 
plant.”—J. R. 

Scilla autumnalis L. 

Luzula campestris DC. St. Mary’s. 

L, congesta Koch. St. Mary’s. 

ae Ly emits L. Higher Marsh, 
t. 


Sclerochloa maritima Lind Higher 
Marsh, St. Mary’s (Curnow). 


Hordeum pratense Huds. Old 
Town Marsh. 


Lomaria Spicant Desy. Salakee 
Down, nr. the Giant’s Castle 
(Millett), 

Asplenium Ruta-muraria L. 
(Cooke). 

Aspidium angulare Willd. 

Nephrodium amulum Bak. 

Ophioglossum vulgatum L. 
Point, St. Mary’s (Millett). 

Botrychium oe. My Bar 

oint, St. the 
neighhonehood ” of “the. Tele-- 
graph (Millett), 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZ, 
By Epuunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 217.) 


y Australasica et Ins. Norfolk. 

oo pecs a apicem aristata vel angulato-apiculata. 

© Carpella calycem breviora vel subequantia. 
t Sepala calycis mae breviora vel subequantia. 

. ABUTILON TUBULOSU alp. Ann. ii. p. 158; Benth. in Fl. 
aaa. i. p. 200. Sida haiatiea A. Cunn.; Hook. in Mitch. Trop. 
Austr. p. 390. 

Hab. Queensland! N.S. ese N. and §. Australia. 
Var. (?) wali eh re 
Hab. Dawson Rive 
81. A. ampLuM 1“ B sate 14 
Hab. North gr an Nichol Bay ! 
ree 14-12 in. long. 
LEvcopeTaLuM F, Muell.; Benth. l.c. Sida lewcopetala 
F, Muell Frag. i 1. pe 1d, 
oe N. and 8. Australia! N.S. Wales. Queensland. 
ar. aon Benth. l.c. p. 201. 
Hab Queensland! §. Australia. 
Var. (?) rs Benth. J. c. 
Hab. Stony Ridge! 
Abutilea er pba F, Muell. in Linnea, xxv. p. 379, ought, 
serene to Mr. Bentham, to be considered a form of A. Mitchelli. 

. A. micropetaLuM Benth. l.c, p. 201. Sida micropetala R. Br, 
in Hexb t 
‘Hab. Queensland. N.S. Wales ! 


Linnea, xxv, p. 8 
Hab. 


e 


268 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER, 


85. A. cryproperatum F. Muell.; Benth. l.c. Sida cryptopetala 
F. Muell. Frag. ii. p. 11, : 

Hab. N.S. Wales. W. Australia! N. and §. Australia. 

86. A. GrRaniomes Benth. lc. p. 202. Sida geranioides DC. 
Prod. i. p. 474. 

Hab. W. Australia! 

t t Sepala calycis tubo longiora. 

87. A. orocarpum F, y, Muell.; Benth. J. c. p. 202. 

Hab. N. Australia. Queensland. N.S. Wales. W. and S. 
Australia! 

88. A. susviscosum Benth. l. ¢. 

Hab. Queensland ? 

89. A. Loyeitosum F. v. Muell. Frag. ix. p. 180. 

N 


- V. Muell. in Frag, xi, p- 68. 
Hab. N. Australia. Nickol River ! 
This plant is only 1-2-ovuled. 


ab. Queensland. Cape York Peninsula Exp., W. Hann, 
No. 76! 


Petals + in. long; carpels 2 in, long. 
92. A. ausTRALE Garcke, Ind. Sem. H. Berol. 1861, p.10. 4. 


oxycarpum F. y. Muell.; Benth. J. ¢. p. 204. Sida oxycarpa I. ¥. 


Muell. Frag. ii. p. 18, 
b. N. and 8. Australia. Queensland! N.S. Wales! W. 
Australia. 
ar. (?) MaLvaronium = A. OXYCARPUM vVar.? MALVEFOLIUM 
Benth. /. c. 
Hab. N.S. Wales. - Mt. Murchison, 


++ ++ Carpella ad apicem rotundata vel angulata. 
93. A. Cunninenamn Benth. loc. p. 205 
b. N. Australia | Queensland. 
94. A. Frasert Walp. Ann. ii. p. 158; Benth. l. c. p. 205. Sida 
Fraseri Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr, p- 868, 
Hab. N.,S., and W. Australia. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
ar, PARVIFLORA Benth. /.c, 4, diplotrichum F. y. Muell. in 


Ss. Australia ! 
95. A. waLopnitum fF, v. Muell, 
Fraseri var. halophilum Benth, 1, ¢. 
b W 


Hab. N.S. Wales, §, Australia! W. Australia? Queensland. 


in Linnea, xxy. p. 881. A, 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALYVE, 269 


- 96. A. macrum F, v. Muell. Frag. ix. p. 59. 

Hab. South Australia. North of Fowler’ s Bay! 

tig of Sida virgata Hook, 

97. Juuunm® End. i gs Fl. Ins. Norfolk. p. 75. Sida 
Juliane ‘Disks Syn. iv. p. 856. 

Hab. Norfolk Is. N.S. Wales. 


x £2 Sandvicensia. 
A, Menzimstr cea Fl. Vit. p. 15. 
Hab Sandwich Is., Menzies ! 


%* * ¥ 

x % x Malayana. 
99. A. NEuRocaRPUM Miq. Pl. J ungh. p. 285. 
Hab. Java. 
I do not know the number Pg of this plant. 


(in sicco flavis) calyce lo “rei — calyce brevioribus 
dense stellato- ploss aristatis 2-sper 
H mas Island, J. J. Liter 


Fruiting BR TP 2-3 in. long; calyx nearly 4 in.; petals 
2 in, long. 
C. Carpella 4—o ovulata. 
t Folia peltata vel subpeltata. 
ay perc B Schum. l.c. p. 898, t. Ixxii. 
Hal razil. Prov. Minas Geraes. 
are FLUVIATILE K. Schum. l.c. p. 899. Sida fluviatilis Vell. 
Fl. Flam, vii. t. 8. 
Hab. Brazil, nr. Rio Janeiro. 


t + Folia haud peltata. 
~+ Calyx tubulosa margine dentata. 
. A. megaporamicum St. Hil. et Naud. Ann. Sc. Nat. 
XVlii. Hes 49; Fi. de Serres, t. 1599. 4. vevillarium E. Morr. Dal 
Hort. 1864, p. 289. Sida megapotamica Spreng f. Tent. Supp. p.1 
Brazil. Prov. Rio de Janeiro ! 
104. A. ivFLatcM a et K. Schum. Fl. Brazil, 1. c. p. 401. 
= South Brazil. 
105. A. tonerrorrum K, Schum. /.c. p. 402, t. Ixxiv. 
Hab. Brazil. 
+ + Calyx basi turbinata. 
106. A. moxtisstum Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 58. A. calycinum 
Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 116. A. “anche od Symb. ad 
Flor. Arg. p. 48. 4, sordidum K, Schun Pp. 106. Sida 


270 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


mollissima Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 9. cistiflora L’Herit. Stirp. 
ie Di 197, b. Cli 

Hab. Peru! Argentine Republic. 

107. A. cranprroLium Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1, p. 58. A. molle 
Sweet, ‘Hort. Brit. ed. 2, p. 65. A. tortuosum Guill. & Perr. Fl. 
Seneg. p. 68. A. mollissimum K. Schum. 1. c. p. 4038. % a 

alp. Rep. i. p. 824. Sida mollis Ort.; DC. Prod. 
grandifolia Willd. ; ; Bot. Reg. t. 860. 8. Arnottiana Gill. Hosk. & 
Arn 154. 


Hab. Peru! Uruguay ! Paraguay! Argentine Republic! 
108. A. pavcirtorum St. Hil. Fi. aoe Mer. i 
St. 


b. Brazil! B88 Republic! Ur ar Paraguay. 
Bolivia ! Cate America! West Indies! Florida 


+ + + Calyx campanulata. 
* Folia suprema haud lobata. 
© Gerontogea. 


109. A. . p. 55. 
phyllum Edgw. in Trans, L. Soc. x X. p. 85. Sida ee heer 
Hort. Beng. p. 50. "8. oxyphylla Wall. Cat. No. 1850. 78, persica 
Burm. ex Cay. Dis. p. 85. S. Wallichii Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. 
p. 579. 

Hab. A asaet Upper Burma! Pegu. 

1 SonNERATIANUM Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 54. Sida 
Tehoopshiey! a ; DC. Prod. i. p. 470. 
H ape 


111. A. stvense Oliy. in Icones Plant. vol. xviii. t. 1750. 
Hab. China. Prov. Hupeh, Henry, Nos. 88221 8454! 


© © Neogea. 

113...A. DEPAUPERATUM Anderss. om ogee ey gat p.98. Sida 

depauperata Hook. f. in Trans. ae Soe. xx 
ab. Galapagos Is., Darw 

113. A, amptexirotium Don, Ge en. Syst. i. p. 502; a ae 
Pl. Nov. pars. = p. 28, Sida sf DC. Pro ai 

Hab. Mex Ruiz & Pavon!  Orizaba, Botteri, No, vest 
Valley of Conova, Bourgeau, No. 1512! Vera Cruz to Orisa, 
Miller, No. 166 

114. A. norotopurum A. Gray in Proc, Am. Acad. v. p. 175. 

ap sama oe rere it = grt in part. 

ranthum Peyr. 59, non St. Hil., 

cli iy Heller at , eos No. 0. 16, ath a cena the 


A. discolor Bak. fil. (Journ. Bot. 1898, 73), Berlandier 2163 in 
part, differs fr from A. notolophium Gray by the peduncles being shorter 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVES. | 271 


5. A, PEDUNCULARE B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 278. Sida 
peduncularis DC. Prod. i 469, 
. New Gr Rae ry 

The peduncles of this plant are 5-8 in. long. 

116. A. ge ae “ K. l.c. p. 272. 

Hab. Pile Grana 

117, A. IwmquaLe m # hum. l.c. p. 407. Sida inaequalis Link 
: Otto, Pl. Select. Hort. Berol. p. 75, t. 84. S. Mendanha Vell. 

. Flum. vii. t. 28. 

een aoe Brazil! 

Dr. ke (in Engler’s Bot. Jahrbuch. 1898, p. 484) states 
that A. ps BB. wane is synonymous with this plant. 

118. A. Guaziovi K. Schu c. p. 408. 

Hab. hres Prov. Rio LS Glaziou, No. 10807! Lieut. 
Speke! J. Bal 
119. A. rurtvettum K. Schum. in herb. 
— Brazil. Prov. Rio Tanciea, Glaziou, No. 18136! 
ae Pcrig re in Proc. Linn. Soe. i i. p. 109, must be 
allied to the a 
A. macrantHum St. Hil. ve Bras. Mer. i. p. are A, lana- 
tum Mig. in Linnea, xxii. p. 553; K. Se oo oto. © igs 
oe Brazil. Pro ria Side 
. A. Moura K. Sob <CcDe s ‘ 
Hal South Brazil, Plate No. 13542! 
122. A. amoznum K. Schum. J. c. p. 411. 

Hab. South Brazil, Sellow. 

123. A. Scuenckn K. Schum. l.c. p. 412. 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Rio de Janeiro. 

124, A. eroprrtorum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 502. Sida globiflora 
Bot. Mag. t. 2821 

Hab. Peru or Chili, ‘‘ Mathews, No. 1550. . Lamas”! 

In the description in the ‘Botanical Magazine’ : Ar ught to 
be a native of Mauritius; but the seeds, I think, must have been 
ne to this island from the habitat quoted a abov 

A. arporEum Sweet, pag Brit. i. p. 53. Sia arborea Li. ; 
L'Herit. ens Nov. p. “hea t. 88; DC. Prod. i. p. 469. 8S. peru. 
viana Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. ian, 8. grandiflora Poir. in Encye. 
Supp on 81. 

Ha b. Peru, Dombey! &c. 

rborescens Medic. Maly. p. 29, oe A, frutescens Medic. 1. c., 
are possibly synonymous with the abov 

126. A. scasripum K. Schum. De , 18. 

Hab. Brazil, Sellow, Nos. 744 

Possibly same as Sida pee Vell. ‘Fl. Flum. vii. t. 17 (A. 
truncatum K. um 

To a plant slosely allied to the above, and collected by Glaziou, 
No. 15837, Dr. Schumann ~ c.) gives the name Abutilon costicalyx, 
The diagnosis is deferred 


272 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


127. A. cemmntrcorum H.B.K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. v. p. 274, 
t.474. 2? A. dianthum Fae Famcgg > Haenk. ii. p. 114. Side gemi- 
niflora DC. Prod. i. p. 470. ? 8S. — Dietr. Syn. iv. p. 856.. 

Hab. Venezuela, Fendler, No. 9 

128. A. RUFINERVE = aoa Fl. Bae Mer. i. p. 205, t. 42. 8S. 

ots tee Bot. Mag. 
Hab. Brazil. “ee Rio Janeiro! Minas Geraes! St. Paulo. 
St. Catherina! &c. 
Var. #. conrerta St. Hil. Fl. a Mer. i. p. 206. 
Hab. Padre Correa, Pohl, No. 
Var. y. Latiroria St. Hil. & iat: in Ann. Se. Nat. ii. Ser. xviii. 
4 


p. 49. 
Hab. Serra de Orgaos, Gardner, No. 319! 

Var. 3. ocuracea K. Schum. l.c. p. 416. 
Hab. Prov. Minas Geraes. 


Var. «. susauaBra K. Schum. 7. c. 
Hab. South Brazil, Sloe, No. 726! 
129. A. Beprorpranum St. & Naud. in Ann. Se. a Ser. ii. 


xviii. P 48. Sida Paareng Hook in Bot. Mag. t. 8 
H il. 


Var. a. concotor K. Schum. l. c. p. 417. 
= Brazil. Prov. Rio de sai Gardner, No. 820! &c. 
r. 8. Saepeaye K. Schum. /.c. p. 418 

Hak. Brazil. Prov. Minas Gane Bt Paulo. 

180. - Ce atc K. Schum. l.¢. Sida silvatica Cav. : ; DC. 
Prod. i. p. 466. 

ae “Peru. Bolivia, Mandon, No. 821! M. Bang! 

13 A. ESCULENTUM St. Hil. Pl. Usuel. t. 51. A. virens St. Hil. 

Naud. in Ann. Sc. Nat: ser. 2, xviii. p. 48. 8. rosea Link & Otto, 
Ic. Pl. Select. p. 71, t. 82; Bot. — t. 8150, ? 9, tg tae 
ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 119. 8. triflora Vell. Fl. Flum 


azil. 
Dr. Garcke, J. c. +» DP. 490, states that Sida purpurascens Link, 
—— Hort. Berol. ii. p. 206, is probably not synonymous with the 


132. A. carneum St. Hil. Fl. Bras. ri i. p. 205. 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Rio de J aneir. 

138. A. raucarum St. Hil. & Meda in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, 
Xviii. p. 

Hab. Br azil. Proy. Rio de Janei 

According to Dr. Garcke (in iieter’ s Jahrbuch, 1893, p. 488), 
may be the same as 4. Schenckii K. Schum 

134, A. macrocarpum St. Hil. & Naud. L ¢. p. 47, 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Rio de Janeiro ! 

Leaves discolorous, about 3 in. long, and ned in. broad. 

135. A. Macropuytium St. Hil. & Naud, 1 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Rio de Janeiro ! 


ZZCIDIUM LEUCOSPERMUM Dc. 278 


136. A. monranum St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p. 207. 
Hab. .Brazil. Prov. Minas Geraes. 
(To be continued.) 


4ECIDIUM LEUCOSPERMUM DC, 
By Henry T, Sopprrr. 


Dourive the spring months of the past four years I have given 
some little study to AHeidium leucospermum, which is parasitic on 
mmon 


own experience of 
Puccinia fusca is that it one of the commonest of British 
Uredinee, and I have noticed that it makes its appearance long 
before the Acidium. 


Steeton, some ten miles distant, and a few weeks later on at Bolton 


view to observing whether the Acidium was succeeded by any other 
spore form ; and on several occasions later in the season I revisited 
the localities, but failed to find the slightest trace of uredospores or 
teleutospores either on the same host or on any other species of 
plant in the vicinity. 
or the purpose of experiment, during the following spring 
I collected a quantity of Puccinia fusca, which was kept during the 
winter out of doors under a bell-glass. At various times during 
April, 1891, the spores were placed in water, and repeatedly 
examined, but in not a single instance did I observe germination. 
The spores, however, were subsequently applied in quantity to 
healthy Anemone plants, but no result followed. 
In the middle of May, 1891, I transplanted into my garden from 
Steeton several plants of Anemone nemorosa, the leaves of which 


sequent cultures—did it become detached, or attempt to germinate. 
On May 24th, 1891, I had an abundant supply of spores of the 


JournaL or Borany.--Vou. 31. [Srpr. 1893.] T 


Q74 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


ZEcidium, and these were applied in a state of germination to os 
leaves of healthy established plants of Anemone nemorosa. Thes 
were in an isolated position, and ca bea watched for many oe 


Early i in May, 1892, I established a batch of seedling plants . 
Anemone nemorosa, and applied to ae peal a profusion of germ 
nating spores of the Acidiu No s of any result followed in 
1892, and although ihe nai of oa rie th did not reappear 
in 1898, I had the satisfaction, on April 1a of seeing several 
cups of the Acidium on one of the leaf-se gm 

Considering the amount of infecting materia used, the results 
were slight, yet, taken in raesagie eo ith numerous observations 

made on the fungus in a state of Jaapolt I ect not the least doubt 
that Hein sais i um s a species distinct from Puccinia 
fusca Relh. ; rachis tel entirely by means of its spores 
and ‘oni -. elium, and that its development is similar in 
every respect to Eniipyiton, Bir this ee that it does not 
mes ae promycelial spore 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 
COMPILED BY 
Wii A. Crarxe, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 248.) 


Chrysanthemum segetum L. Sp. Pl. 889 (1753). 1570. 

** Segetes Sane scatent.”—Lob. Adv. 287. 
anthemum L. Sp. Pl. 888 phe f 1570. ‘Bellis 

major. bare Greate Daysie.”—Lob. Adv 

Matricaria inodora L. Fl. Suec. ua 2, "307 (1755). 1633. 
The “‘May weed without any smell,” desed. Ger. em. 757, first 
paragr 

M. Chamomilla L. Sp. Pl. 891 (1753). 1632. Hampstead 
Lob Enum. (“Chamemelum sive Anthemis vulgatior 


cetum vulgare L. Sp. Pl. 844 (1753). 1597. ‘“ Groweth 
wilde in “felds as well as in gardens.”—Ger. 
Artemisia Absinthium L. Sp. Pl. 848 eee: 1551. 
“‘Groweth . . . aboute tounes diches,” &¢.— 
A. vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 848 (1753). 1551. «Phys common 
Mugwurt of on pl groweth . . . in hedges and among the Corne,”— 
urn. i 


A. campestris L. Sp. Pl. ag baa 1650, “ On Newmarket 
Heath, Mr. Sare.” How, Phyt. i 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 275 


- maritima L. Sp. Pl. 846 (1753). 1548. Plentuous in 
Non hemberi ande by ae Tlande and in Northfolke beside Lin.” — 
urn. Names, A iiij, 
Tussilago Farfara ls Sp. Pl. 865 (1758). 1548. <« Groweth 
te hag sydes and in marishe groundes.”—Turn. Names, G vi, 


Petasites Dg as sea Moench. Meth. 568 (1794). 1538. 


‘‘ Petasites . . . a butter bur, northumbrienses vocant an Elden.” 

—Turn. Li 
Senecio. vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 867 be ok 1538. ‘Senecio 
angli vocant Grunswell.”—Turn. Lib. ‘ Groweth most in 


mud walles and about cyties.”—Turn. i, 182 (1562). 

S. sylvaticus L. Sp. Pl. 868 lc 1713. ‘Cotton 
ak" ree pa Ese Hb. Brit. xvii. 6. 

S. vi us L. Sp. Pl. 868 (1758). 1860. ‘©On all the Fen 
banks ate in the Isle of ae "WR, C, 

. erucifolius L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1218 "G168). 1G77.-:'ia 
pre sepium & dumetis.”—Ray, Cat. ed. 2, 170. es 
minor foliis magis dissectis.’”-—Johns. Kent (168 2), 14 

S. Jacobeea, L. Sp. Pl. 870 (1758). 1597. « OMe 8 Ragwoort 
groweth sth baer ”’_Ger. 
es us Huds. i. 817 (2762). 1660. In Cambs (‘‘In 
humidis et pasion —R. 

S. paludosus L. Sp. Pl. 870 (1758). 1660. ‘In many places 
about the ips as by a great ditch side near Stretham ferry, &e.” 
(Cambs).—R. OC. C. 37. 

S. palustris DC. Prod. vi. 363 (1837). 1650. ‘A stones cast 
from the East end of Shirley Poole neere Rushie moore belonging 
to Mr. Davey hale ars = Yorkeshire, Hoary Fleabane, Mr. 
Heaton.’’—How, Phy « About Mareh and Chatteris, in 
the Isle of Ely. a he Cnt. Cant. 87 (166 

S. campestris DC. Prod. vi. 361 1887). 1660. ‘On Gog- 
magog hills and Newmarket heath ” (Cambs).—R. . 80. 

S. spathulefolius DC. Prod. vi. 862 (1837). 1800. oy 
cliffs near Holyhead, Anglesea. Rey. H. Davies.—Sm. F t. ii. 
896. (eee Babington i a Journ. Bot. 1882 , p. 38. 

Carlina vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 828 (1753). rey Cin untoiled 
and pment se ae oftentimes upon hils.”—Ger. 997. ‘ Upon 

Ken 9. 


Blackhea er. em. 
Ar ae Lappa L. Sp. Pl. 816 (1753) (aggregate). 1548. 
‘** Groweth comdly about townes and cues ’—Turn. Names, F ij 


(sub Personata). 
majus Bernh. Syst. Verz. Erf. 154 (1800). 1724. ‘ Com- 


mon before Ay come to New-Cross in Kent; Mr. J. Sherard.”— 
197. 


Ray, Syn. iii 
A. nemorosum Lej. ap. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xv. 54 faved? 
1865. ‘ Llanberis, ord aac ”—Babington in Ann. 


ser. 3, xv. 11—which si 
A. minus Bernh. Sy st. Verz. Erf. = ae qe: First 

occurs in British Floras cr this name in B n. ed. 1, p. 171. 
A. intermedium Lange, Dansk. F'l. 463 (aba), 1856. “Near 


r 2 


276 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


Berwick upon Tweed,” &¢c.—Bab. in Ann H. ser. 2, xvii. 875 
[as var. of A. minus. Bab. Man. ed. 3, 179 SED) | 

Carduus pyenocephalus L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, i (0. tenwiflorus 
Curt.). 1634. ‘C. spinosissimus capitulis minoribus sive Pol y- 
acantha, Lob. Johns. Mere. Bo t. 26. 

C. nutans L. Sp. Pl. 821 (1758). 1597. ‘Groweth in the 
fieldes about Cambridge.”—Ger. 1012. iri Siena ted 
represent this species, and his description what 

ohnson (Ger. em. 1174, 1176) eet a “aera the ie oy 
ey = had seen ‘“ growing about Deptford.” 

rispus L. Sp. Pl. 821 (1753). 1629. Johns. Kent, p. 8 
Et i Polyacanthits Theophrasti ” 

eus lanceolatus Willd. F'l. Berol. Prod. 259 (1787). yaa s 
“ By highway sides and common n paths, in great plenty.” —Ger. 1 

C. eriophorus Roth. Tent. i. 345 (2788). .1670.- “ sas 
in Anglie collibus strigosis agri Sommerseti juxta wdes.... 
Eduardi Saintloo.”—Lob. Adv. 870 

C. palustris Willd. Fl. Berol. Prod. 260 (1787). 1633. 
‘‘Growes on wet heaths.”—Johnson, Ger. em . p. 1176, line 38. 

. tuberosus Roth. Tent. i. 845 (1788). 1813. ‘Discovered 
. by A. B. Lambert; Esq. [in 1812] in a wood... . called 
Great Ridge, near Boyton House, Wilts.’—KE. B. 

C. sla anne Sp. Pl. iii. 1672. 1576. “Cirsium 
anglicum nit in pratis C. viri D. Nicolai Pointz equitis 
‘ eras Glésteisnsis in villa vernacule Acton nomine.’’—Lob. 

315 


C. heterophyllus Roth, Catalecta, i. 114 (1797). 1583. 
“Descriptionem & iconem mihi anno 1581 1 Londini orerciees ee 
C. V. Thomas Pennaeus Londinensis Medicus - Pro 
pratis ad radices montis Eng 
Comitatu Eboracensi.”"—Clusius, Stirp. Pannon. Hist. 65 

C. acaulis Willd. Fl. Berol. Prod. 260 ce 1629. " Johns. 

. 2. sh 


Onopordon Acanthium L. Sp. Pl. 827 (1753). 1562. 
‘* Besyde Sion in England.”—Turn. ii. ee 

Saussurea alpin . Ann. Mus vi. p. 198 (1810). 1641. 
“On the Rockes on the highest part of Siisidan, ”—Johns. Mere 
Bot. pars alt. 18, 


erratula tinetoria L. Sp. Pl. oe eps 1570. ‘In 
nemorosis .... An Re ”—Lob. Adv ‘‘In Hampsteede 
oode,”’ = —Ger. 5 


Centa mph - Sp. Pl. 911 (1758), and ©. Lapa? on 
Sp. Pl. 913 (1753) 1597, « In everie fertill pasture.” —Ger 

C. Cyanus L. Sp. Pl. 911 (1753). 1538, « Cyanus 
herbam arbitror esse quam northumbria vocat a Blewilew aut a 
Blewb yoo "—Turn. Lib. 


itrapa L. Sp. Pl. 917 (1758). 1597. «Upon barren 
places oan unto cities and townes.”—Ger 


er. 
Cichorium Intybus L. Sp. Pl. 818 (1758). 1538, * Intu- 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS 277 


borum duo sunt genera... . Erraticus net dicitur — 

cichorium . . . . angli wylde suckery nomin —Turn 
Arnoseris pusilla Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 855 (1791). 1650. “In 

ae, barren fields in Yorkshire. Mr. Stonehouse.”’—How, Phyt. 


Lapsana communis L. Sp. Pl. pps eats 1597. “Upon 
walles made of mudde or earth,” &.—-Ger. 199. The figure is of 
another plant, but Johnson (Ger. em. 955) substitutes a correct one 

Picris hieracioides L. Sp. Pl. 792 (1753). 1641, “ Hieracium 
asperum in montosis pratis.”—Johns. Mere. Bot. pars alt. 24, 

P. echioides L. Sp. Pl. 792 (1758). 1551. * Oure Langue 
de befe . . . in gréat plentye betwene Sion and Branfurd.’”—'Lurn. 
Hb. i. 148 3 (back). 

Crepis feetida L. Sp. Pl. 807 (1753). 1660. - In Cambridge- 
shire. (‘‘Hieracium minus Cichorei vel potius Stcbes folio hir- 
sutum.”)—R. C. C. 75. 

. taraxacifolia Thuill. Fl. Par. ed. 2, 409 (1798). 1845. 
Distinguished from biennis by Mr. Joseph Woods in 1841. See 
Trans. oe Soc. xix. 491. 

C.v s L. a: “Pl. ed. 2, 1134 (1672). 1597. ‘In untoiled 
jeaee * We Hieracium Aphae oides ’’).—Ger. 236. 

C. biennis L. Sp. Pl. 807 (1753) rig ‘A D. Newton in 
Cantia oe est.”’—Ray, Hist. ii. 

Cc. efolia Tausch, in Flora, ix. (1898); Erg. i. 79. 1794. 
Ke < aylvis ‘Bevtls australis,” 1789.—James Dickson in Trans. Linn, 
ii. 288 (‘* Hieracium molle ”). 

C. paludosa Moench. Meth. 535 (1794). ogenk “ In mon- 
tosis “ny iia Angliw.”’—Ray, Cat. ed 

stead of atemping to deal ser —s with the 


a very brief hatch of the ‘Son and progre s of our know Pal ~ this 
enus in Britain. The only species clearly noes by ‘ er is 
H, Pilosella, his ‘ yealowe Mouseare’’? (Nam oe liij, rary Herb. 
ili. 58). In other works before Ray several aesia are described, 
of which ‘‘ H. Intybaceum” of Gerard is H. wmbellatum, “ Pul- 
monaria Gallorum Hieracii flore” (Johns. Eric.) is probably 
- murorum, and ‘“ H. fruticosum latifolinm hirsutum” (Johns. 
Mere. Bot. 42) H. boreale. _Merrett's « Seeger gallica sive 
ows on 


EL Midd. p. 178). hae giv ves us H. alpinum observed by Lloyd i in 
Wales (R. Syn. i. 45) (1690), and a cay found in Westmoreland 
by Lawson (R. Syn. i. 74) (1696) may have been H. anyglicum. 
From this time there is no addition to the list for nearly a hundred 
years, when in 1790 James Dickson recorded H. prenanthoides or 
AA, strictum (his ‘‘H. spicatum’’) from Scotland (Crypt. Fase. ii. 29). 
In Eng. Bot. eighteen species are described ; but several of these 
are not native, and two (‘ H. paludosum ” and ‘‘ H. molle”’) are 
not Hieracia. ‘“ H. pulmonarium” (KE. B. 2307) seems to be 
H, nigrescens or H, pallidum; and “ H. villosum’’ (E. B,. 2 2379) 

be H, eximiwm. In Bab. Man. ed. 1 (1848) we have H. iricum 


278 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


as ‘‘ H. Lapeyrousii,” and in ed. 2 (1847) H. tridentatum appears 
for the first time. Fries’ «Symbol ad historiam Hieraciorum 


since been described by Messrs. H pein Marshall, and others in 

the pee of the Solarian of Botan ; 

heris glabra L. Sp. Pi. 811 (1753). 1670. ‘On the 

gravelly Meath -grounds near Middleton in Warwickshire.”—Ray, 
at. 16' eae 


ret - Sp. Pl. 811 (1758). 1597. ‘‘In untoiled 
et Sp. Pl. 810 (1753). 1663. “On Gogmagog 
he. 


- Ap 
eontodon hirtum L. Syst. ed. 10, ia i194 (1759). 1690. 
‘Found {by J. Boberty 0 = the bans = New Parks and divers other 
places. about Oxford.”—Ray, Syn. i. 237. 
- hispidum L. Sp. Pl. "799 (1753). 1634, « Hieracium 
Dentis leonis folio hitentni.” J arm pre te 43. [?* Hiosyris 


erb. i 
utumnale L. Sp. Pl. 798 8 (Te) “1629. ** Hieracium 
minus mesa radice.”—Johns, 
de Wont Weber's “si Wis igg. FI. Holsat. 56 (1780). 
1548. “Dan de lyon . . . groweth everywhere.” —Turn. Names, 
D yj, back. 

Lactuca virosa L. Sp. Pl. Achonatl 1570. “ Lactuca 
agrestis odore opii—In Anglid.”—Lob. Ady. 89. Isle of Shep- 
Pp ey.—Johns, Kent, 5 (1629), 

L. Seariola L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1119 (1762). 1568. “Lactuca 
sylvestris. PsPaen, ii, 26. Hampstead Heath.—Johns. Enum. 
en 


ve or lane 
leading from ait road to the river just at the water near a 
quarter of a mile beyond the spittle-house end” (Cambs.).— 
R. C. C. 88, 


L. muralis DO. Prod. vii. st (1838). nae 
and in woody mountainous places.”’—Ger. e 
L. alpina Benth. ex Hook. £ Stud. Pita. ri 3, 241 (1884) 
(Muligedium nib Less.). 0. « Discovered on the yond 
mountain of Lochnagore by Mr. G. Don, Sept. 1801.” 


‘**Upon walls 


Sonchus oleraceus L. Sp. Pl. 794 | Page 1538. ‘ Cicer- 
i Lib. 


bita . . . a nostris Sowthystell. ”—Turn 
S. asper Vill. Fl. Dauph. iii. 158 (1789). 1833. Figured and 
described as ~ rr species in E. B. 8. 2765; but see Turn. Hb. 
i, 55, Ger. 2 
- arve sain =. Sp. Pl. 798 (1758). 1562. “'The oo 
hawke wede . . . in the medowe a lytle from Shene” (‘Turn. ii 14) 
is probably this, « Sonchus arborescens.”—Johns, Kent, 18 (1682 ). 


SHORT NOTES. 279 


S. palustris L. Sp. Pl. A bbe 1666. ‘In the medows 
betwixt Woolwich and Greenwich by the banks of Thames.”— 
Merrett, 115. “Th. Willisellas fevers ad sh eg Tamesis fluvii non 
longe a ‘Grenvico. "Ray, 1677). 

ragopogon pratensis L. Sp. Pl. 789 (1753). 1548. 
Ly Geoweh in the fieldes abet London per tai "Turn. 


ames, B y. 
Lobelia Dortmanna L. Sp. Pl. 929 (1753). 1677. ‘Ina 

Pool or _ called Hullswater that divides Westmorland from 
Cumberlan miles from Pereth plentifully.’’"—Ray, Cat. ed. 2, 132. 

L. ure . Pl. 981 (1758). heroes * a eo 
Common inte Axminster et Honiton. D.N ry.”’—Hud 378. 

Jasi ee L. ie Pl. 928 isd). "1629. J Pa ee 
montana natin .”—John ent, 9. 

Wahienbergia hederacea Reichb. Ic. Bot. v. 47. 1633. 
‘‘ First discovered to grow in Boe gland by Master George Bowles 
Anno 1682, who found it HA ontgomerie shire, on the dry bankes 
in the high-way as one rideth from Dolge 88 a pa ts cae e- 
mans house called Mr. Francis Herbert, unto a market 
called Mahuntleth, and in all the way from thence to the sea ae 
—Ger. em. 452 


' (To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 
ArtiriciaL Epretwetss. — Some enbespriaing persons have hit 
Peseta of Kdelweiss, which at the same Gaia saves the trouble of 


growing and rearing them. The white woollen felted material of 
military coats, worn chiefly by Austrian soldiers, when cut into 


of the plant, more a iarianacle of course when the colour is s 
what mellowed by exposure and the natural ibet 2 wearin a 
the material t the happy thought has suggested itself 


of buying up quantities of these discarded military coats, and 
8 i or 


this year by a resident in Lucerne 
dispose satisfactorily of his garden-stock, owing to ae papi ers 


in the rival method of production making the plant a dru 
I therefore bought a oS and on Sssesting it with 


sp 
complete.—F. N, Wi 

Los URENS. — be J uly 20th I was taken to the habitat of 
this cant, a aie (Devon). It may interest your readers 


280 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 


to know that I found the plant scattered over about half an acre of 
ground, sufficiently abundant to give at a distance quite a purple 
hue to the asa in places from the spikes of flower. — Cecm H. 
Se. Per 


‘access RHAMNOIDES IN Somerset (p. 249).—There is no need 
to go as far as Stert Point to explain the origin of this shrub on 
Burnham Sandhills. It has been planted in considerable quantity 
on land adjoining the Lighthouse,—close to the Links,—and has 
also been introduced at one or two other spots not far off. H. 


, five year 
sandy “on petlide the sete fgiellisinaes ve the ions — 
Davip 


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A Biographical Index of British and seg gee By James 
Britren S. Bouterr, F.L.8. 8vo, pp. xv, 188. 
London: West, Newman & Co. 1898. Price 6s. 6d. net. 

persons interested in the history of botany and of the 

a of these islands, but more especially nds actively 
ed t istori il 


this is not merely a reprint. Saying nothing of the “ business” 

difficulties attending the reproduction of a work of this kind, which 

after all does not very directly appeal to a large number of the 

community; let anyone verify the references in one paragraph, 

and he will then be in a much better position to appreciate the 
m 


shortcomings. As is stated in the preface, the original ae in th 
Journal of Botany acti’ 1619 names, occupying 148 pages, 
whereas in its present form it contains 1825 names, covering 188 
pages; so that there are considerable extensions as well as additions. 


of persons who are not within easy distance of a good library, but 
: should be veinionsbcbea it only professes to be a finger-post. The 
rs say ‘it is intended mainly as a guide to further information, 
aig not as a bibliography or biography. We have been liberal in 
including all who have in any way contributed to the eg of 
Botany, who have made scientific collections of plants or have 
otherwise assisted directly in the progress of Botany, exclusive of 
pure Horticulture. We have not, as a rule, included t who 
were merely patrons of pair nits or those known only as contributing 
details to a local Flora.” From this paragraph it is clear 


BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 281 


that a selection had to be made; there was no hard and fast line, 
pede it depended upon opinion or upon the available 
ormation whether this or that person was considered to have a 
sufcient claim to appear in the list. It would perhaps have been 
well to have put ‘‘deceased’’ in the title, because it is thus 
limited. To this limitation is icc tias due the absence of the 
names of certain persons, known promoters of Botany in their time, 


the sense of persons having an equal claim to -) Bite cv and 
sc ven ge me pees British and Irish botan 
How & safer ground when we still ‘to persons 
pocat, ie ago "asboated. William Cattley does not appear, and 
not understand why, even on the editors’ own method of 
pelection, I am reminded of this by some enquiries just received 
fro . Bretschneider, the well-known sinologue and historian 
of bine Botany. Cattley was manifestly something more than 
an ardent horticulturist. He had a garden at Barnet, where he 
cultivated many choice plants, among them a species of the 
beautiful genus of orchids wie _— him by his sive Lindley. 
Indeed sine (Jou. Bot. 1865, p. 885) would seem to have 
found some evidence that Caitley "floated Lindley's Caliganas; 
and ca s Icones Plantarum ee sponte nascentium was appa- 
rently based on drawings in Cattl 
Another name not in the In <e that occurs to me is Samuel 
Mason, of Yarmouth, who seg td at ne leva eans of the present 
century. In the Kew libra e three small quarto volumes of 


Dawson Turner, 1800, in the first volume :—‘ For the drawings 
contained in this volume I am spenely: indebted to the delicate 
pencil of Mr. Sa us Mason, of Yarmouth, a most indefatigable 
eocten, as well as a most pices observer of these plants.” 
Some of these aavre I may add, are the original figures used by 
Pacer in ba Synopsis of the British Fuci. As I have already 
hinted, I could make a considerable list of omitted names; but 
I will one. etiam one more and that is H. N. Moseley, the 
botanist of the ‘Challenger * Expediti ion, who not only collected 
largely, but also published most valuable notes on the vegetation of 
many of the remote oceanic islands. 

h iven a few examples of omissions in order to substantiate 


light concerning persons most difficult to trace,—information only 
to be found in the archives of the Botanical Department of the 
British Museum, and a perma extracted at a vast expenditure 
of time,—is deservin g of all our praise and gratitude. 

And this little book is, after all, the foundation, and a goo 
substantial — too, of the history of British and Irish botanists, 


982 ENGLISH LOCAL BOTANY. 


which may some day develop into as complete and exhaustive 
a work as Colmeiro’s admirable La Botanica y los Botdanicos de la 
Peninsula Hispano-Lusitana. No other nation, I believe, possesses 
such a work as the latter, and no second nation, so far as I am 
aware, just such a work as the former. W, Borrinc Hemsuey. 


Eneutsh Locat Borany. 


Jord, Godalming, Farnham, and Haslemere. By 8. 'T. Dunn, 
-A. London: West, Newman & Co. 1893. 8vo, pp. vi, 
106. Price 3s. net. 

Memories of Malling and its Valley: with a Fauna and Flora of Kent. 
By Rev. Frevpinc, M.A. West Malling, Kent: Oliver. 
8vo, pp. vi, 291. Price 7s. 6d. 

On the Flora of Gloucestershire. By J. H. Burxirt, B.A. 8vo, 
pp. 10. 


Flora of South-west Surrey: including Leatherhead, Dorking, Guild- 
r 


HE modest claims and neat appearance of Mr. Dunn’s little 
book prepossess the reviewer favourably, and an examination of the 
work confirms the first impression. It is “‘a portable field-guide, 


t 
east by the Leatherhead, Dorking, and Horsham road; and on the 
north by the northern slopes of the chalk range. The actual limit 


Hampshire boundary.” 
The author has been fortunate in securing the help of the Rev. 
E. 8. Marshall ; there are evidences, however, of painstaking and 
i ds whi 


apparently wild in Albury Park”; Martyn’s locality for Anemone 
apennina (** Woods about Shiere and Guildford ”) is quoted. 

e abbreviations are trying—e.g., ““D.” for De Crespigny’s 
New Lendon Flora, and “J.B.” for this Journal—but Mr. Dunn 
has been anxious to economise space; this he could have done 


ee ee 


ENGLISH LOCAL BOTANY, 288 


But, as the trivial nature of these criticisms will show, we have 
nothing but praise for this conscientious little book, and the botanist 
we visits South-west Surrey cannot do better than take it in his 

t. 


no localities ; each plant, however, has an ‘‘ English name,” and 
‘the greater number are found in the Lama district.” Mr. 
Fielding has, we believe, lived in Kent for a great many years, and 
it is a thousand pities that he did not come under the influence of 
some capable botanist when he first began to notice plants. As it 


lim 
Here are three entries oe the first page of the Flora, from 
which st readers can form their own judgment as to the character 
of the list 
- Trollias us Huropaeus. — Globe-flower; a plant common in 
Kentish gardens, but I cannot find that it has been discovered wild 
in this county. 


ar 
East Kent. Mr. Hepworth of Rochester has detected it. The 
faversham Floral, Sgn eed years ago, mentions it, and 
Hooker also erent it for 
** Aconi apellus. Monk s hood, common wolf bane. 
have seen this plant growing where I had reason to think it 
native, but, as it is a very common seideth plant, it may have nifie 
an esca 
There a are six Primulas in the eam ogee caulescens, 
veris, elatior, and hybrida—the last a comprehensive name for “ the 
hybrid primroses between veris and vulgaris, peels and elatior, 


common in some parts of Ireland as a wild tree, this shrub has 
never been acknowledged as an English native. In Kent, though 
only found in gardens and shrubberies, it, nevertheless, with two or 
three other trees (the evergreen or holm oak, the deodara, the Chilian 
or Araucanian pine, the cedar of Laban and others), flourishes ag 
if this were its native home. Perhaps it is merely reintroduced into 
what was once rm ne sore an It is well for Mr. Fielding that 
. C. Watson is no longer wit 
But we are sure diss our a aathor has the best of intentions, and 
the main part of the book (with which we are not concerned) shows 
that he is industrious. Perhaps Mr. Hanbury (who, we are glad to 


284 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE DIATOMACE®, 


assure Mr. Fielding, is not “the late”) may enable him to turn his 
opportunities to useful account. 


reprinted from the Cheltenham Examiner of May 17th ——contains 
an excellent summary of the Gloucestershire Flora. It was read 


Mr. Burkitt's little paper—a mere ten pages of small type 


that ‘‘it is proposed to publish a reference list, indicating 
where each Gloucestershire plant is recorded” ; this is good news. 


An Introduction to the Study of the Diatomacea. By Frepericx Wa. 
muus. London: Iliffe & Son. 1893. Pp. xi, 243. 6 figs. 
of apparatus. Price 12s. 
- Mixxs has brought together the information contained in 
this book with the purpose of making mor i 
students, especially those who have not access to expensive works, 
any guide to t i 


to the Study of the Diatomaceea, an a Bibliography 
introductory portion is largely concerned with apparatus for the 
study, but contains also information the Diatoms themselves 


examples. In seventy-seven pages, the proofs of which the author 
cannot have read with any particular attention, we have this intro- 
duction set forth—a humdrum performance which may be useful 
enough to microscopists. Pages 78-240 are occupied with a 


arrangement of the bibliography is @ small affai n- 
tribu De Toni's Sylloge a Bibliography of Diatoms up to 1891 
—a thorough and workmanli ormance has added 


to it references bringing it more or less up to date, including his 
own works, and even the work under notice, the first instance 

own to us of a book referring to itself in a bibliography. These 
additions are not serious in amount, and can hardly give their 


Giinther ck’s Geschichte des Wiener Herbariums, where in Mr. 
Deby’s work the word « wichtigeren”” is printed with a defective ‘«h” 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 285 


resembling “‘n.”’ In Mr, Mills’ work it duly appears “wientigeren.” 
It is a trifle, but it exhibits the method of book-production in this 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Bot. Centralblatt. (Nos. 81, 82). — St. J. Golinski, meee Ent- 
wickelungsgeschichte des An dreceums und des Gyniec ums der 
Griiser.’—(No. 83). K. Meinshausen, ‘ Ueber einige iritisabe und 
neue Carex-Arten der Flora Russlands’ (C. leviculmis, C. chloro- 
euca, C. mandshurica, spp. aie - (No o. 34 ): : roe ‘ Die 


Miutdsee: 

Botanical Gazette (July 15). — D. M. pene ‘On oe ape 
sac and embryo of Senecio aureus’ (8 plates). — P. Dietel, ‘New 
species of Uredinee and Ustilaginea.’ ae F, Atkinson, 'Bitloey of 
the organism causing eg ieeey tubercles ’ (4 plates). — CG. 
Robertson, ‘Flowers and Insects.’ — (Aug. 10). J. 8. Wright, 


Fisher, ‘ New and noteworthy N. Am erican plants.’—A. F. Woods, 
‘Recent investigations sf evaporation of water from plants.’ 

. Magazine eas —(July 10). R. Yatabe, Trillium Tscho- 
noskti Maik (1 plate). 

Bull. de ’ Herbier Boissier (No. 6).—F. Prévost- oe Anemone 
alpina & A. sulphurea’ (1 plate).—H. Solereder, ‘Zur ana tomischen 
Charakterisk und zur Syste mn der Rubiaceen. . Hutt, ‘Neue 
Arten der Gattung Delphinium’ (4 plates). —(N 0. 7). _E. de Wildeman, 
‘Le Genre Pleurococcus’ (P. nimbatus, sp.n.: 1 plate).—R. Chodat 


& G. 
‘ Polygalaceew nove.’ — R. Chodat & G. Sndesticag : "y en 
ter ge — C, R oulet, ‘Du genre Thunbergia.’ — J. Briquet, 
aleopsis.’ — J. Weyland, ‘ Zur anstoniiinokaal Chonk: 
teristik ee Galegeen.’ 
ull. Soc. Bot. France (xl. Comptes rendus, 2)— —. ary A 
‘De la marche & suivre dans l'étude des Rubus.’ — E. Mer, ‘ Le 
Balai de age s Bapin.’ —Id., ‘Le brunissement des feuilles de 
Sapin.’—‘ E. Gain, ‘ Sur la matisre colorante des tube reules. HH, 
Goupin,.' : Sur les ge pa du pouvoir absorbant des graines,’— 
P. Duchartre, ‘Sur les aiguillons du Rosa sericea,’— —. Barratte, 
‘Les Doronicum scorpioides & Linum austriacum existent-ils en 
Algérie ?’—L, Mangin, ‘Sur l’assise 4 mucilage de la graine de Lin,’ 


286 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


Bull, To ore: ae Club (July). — N. L. se ebidae en or n 
worthy N. American Phanero ogams ’ (1 plate). — E. Bislaon: 
‘Notes from Meaedite State “habe? Gd. plate).—J. M. Holzinger, 
eats floribunda’ (1 pl ate).—Id., ‘Winter Buds of Utricu- 
laria’ (1 plate). — GC. avis, ‘ Nasturtium Armoracia.’ — J. E. 
Peters, ‘Flora of Southern New Jersey. —T. D. A. Cockerell, 
‘ aio collected in oe 

Spel ie 9 — W. P. Gibbons, ‘The Red-wood in the 
Oakland Fils. ee : Yegetation of Mount Diablo. 


He esta spp. nn Et ug. 12). J. G. Baker, ‘The Ferns 
of New Zealand.’ — ete Walleri Hemsl., sp. n, — (Aug. 19). 
* Azolla filiculoides’ (fig 
Irish Naturalist rem ) a; Colgan, ‘The Shamrock: a further 
attempt to fix its species.’ —R, LJ. Praeger, ‘Flora of Bounty 
Arm st 


rnal de gaa A! 1). — E. G. Camus, « Monographie 

des Oihiase de France.’ — Ly, Gui uignard, ‘ Sur le développement 
é la graine.’ — P, Pig iot, ‘ Chroolepus lageniferum en France,’ 

(Aug. 16). A. Thaiating : ot aera nouvelles Strophanthus,’— 

—. Sacleux, Arduina tetramera (Ge 

Journ. Linnean Soc. (xxx. No. 205 : Aug. 28).—M. T. Mas sters, 

* Notes on Genera of Taxacea and Conifere.’—C, B. Plowright & W. 

a oy history of the Alcidium on Paris ee 
—. sisal ie te otto (2 Sada -—JdJ.0 


Narbenlappen ro ate 3,’ & tebe: die Blithenstand, der Quer 
tlicifolia, say te % ukal, ‘ Mykologische ee H, 
Franzé, ‘ Ueber einige niedere Algenform 

fi cit ins 


aan NEWS, de. 


. Hig da 
the Royal vege Catalogue enumerates several b 
his pen, A sketch of his active life will be 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 287 


Geological Magazine for August, to which we are indebted for some 
of the above particulars. 

Avorner veteran naturalist, Mr. Francis PouKinaHorne Pascor, 
died on June 20th. He was born at Penzance, Sept. 1, 1818, and 
educated for the medical profession. He became M.R.C.S8. in 1885, 


mology, indeed, was the study of his life, although his first publishe 

paper was on ‘Cornish Plants not included in Cybele Britannica,” 

published in the Botanical Gazette for 1850, and he was a member 

of the Botanical Society of London. He always retained his interest 

in botany, and was a well-known figure at the Linnean Society and 
eum. 


part from Natural Science for August, from which, by the way, we 
learn that the note in reference to this Journal, to which we ven- 
tured to take exception (p. 223), was intended to be « playful, but 
complimentary.”” The Editor of Natural Science is evidently of 
opinion that ‘‘ language was given us to conceal our t oughts.” 

Messrs. Sanper advertise, as ‘‘new and sensational,” the rare 
Orchid Fulophiella Elisabethe, and add, “Mr. R. A. Rolfe, the 
author and creator of this new genus, has examined our plants, and 
certified them true.”” There has been so much discussion as to the 
“origin of species,” that it is satisfactory to find at least one genus 
of which the origin can be definitely stated. 


Similar discrepancies occur elsewhere; No. 78 is in the text Poa 


signs 0 care in revision of the proofs are noticed, such as 
mission of an indicating letter, or, as in 7 ere the dis- 
sections of Poa Bolanderi are wrongly described. Moreover, why 
write Poa Thurberiana Vasey for a species originally 


288 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 


arson, 8, The Polygon, Eccles, is preparing a 
work on British Hepatice, and will be glad to receive records 
additional to those given in the London Catalogue (1881). 

Tue Kew Bulletin for J uly contains several descriptions of new 
plants, including a decade of orchids, various economical notes, and 
a list of distinguished persons who attended “a large garden party” 
given in ‘the reserve part of the Royal Gardens” by the First 
Commissioner of Works. 

Pror. E. L. Greens tells us, in Hrythea for August, that ‘Part i. 
of the Indew Kewensis, dealing with the nomenclature of all known 
flowering plants, has just been issued in London. It had been 


confided that such a work was in progress at the Kew Herbarium 


? 


cation of Mr. Jackson’s great work, with the progress of which the 
b inte 


large number of whic by no means familiar—such as 
“‘tephrosius—of an ash-grey colour’’; syno 10n—synonym for 
carcerulus” “rhodoleucus, a combination of r white”’; 
“obligate, necessary, essential.”’ Some definitions require correction, 
as “im ractus, roken synonym for in ‘ hilaris, 
belonging to the hilum ” and there are various matters which one 


deaux mixture,” and the like. u 
useful matter, and no doubt the next-edition will be an improvement 


We have not yet been able to ascertain any particulars of the 
death of Mrs. John Pearless, which took lace, we i 


} 8 e Fr. 
Bonavia on the “ Antiquity of the Citron-tree in Egypt,” and “othér 
essays principally of horticultural interest. The Journal in its 
present form reflects great credit upon Messrs. Wilks and Weathers 
the Secretary and Assistant-Secretary of the Society, 


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289 
* GILBERT WHITE’S SELBORNE PLANTS. 


By tue Eprror, - 


Yet at the time we did not think his Letter xli to Barrington, 
dealing with the “more rare” plants of Selborne, entitled his name 
to inclusion, although we certainly admitted other names who had no 
greater claim than such a letter gives. We had not then noted that 
Mr. Bell, in his edition of Selborne (ii. 869: 1877), said that he 
possessed a catalogue of Selborne plants ‘in the handwriting of 
Gilbert White,” which he embodied in the list which he gave. 

B indness of the Rev. Canon Gordon, its fortunate 
possessor, I have lately seen a copy of Hudson’s Flora Anglica 
(1762), which shows conclusively that White was well acquainted 
with the plants of his locality. The book has White’s autograph 
on the flyleaf, with the date 1765. Facing the title is the follow- 
ing note in White’s hand: “The plants marked thus x have all 


ampton.” He evidently used the book a great deal, for there are 
several corrections of references, figures, &c., by him, which are 
i t 


conglomeratus (p. 129); an entry of Blackstonia on p. 88—‘ Gen- 
tiana corollis octofidis, foliis perfoliatis: vid. p. 146’’; and the 
addition to Prunus Aviwm of the names “ vulg. mery: Fr. merise,” 

The volume afterwards came into the possession of “'T, 
Rutger, Clowance,” who em loyed it as White had done, indi- 


The enumeration contains 489 species, and is not therefore ex- 
haustive, although it must be remembered that in 1762 our list was 
Pp. 


White’s authority, raising the number to 440. I think it may be 


of interest to print this list, and in so doing I have implicitly 
followed Hudson’s order and nomenclature. Most of the names 
d 


will be easily recognised. 


Callitriche verna Veronica Beccabunga 

Ligustrum vulgare chamedrys 

Veronica officinalis arvensis 
serpyllifolia agrestis 


JournaL or Botany.—Von. 81, [Ocr. 1898.] U 


290 GILBERT WHITE’S SELBORNE PLANTS. 


Lycopus europeus 
Circea lutetiana 
Anthoxanthum odoratum 
Valeriana officinalis 


Locusta 
Iris Pseudacorus 
Schcenus albus 
Eriophorum polystachion 
Phleum pratense 


nodos 
urus pratensis 


Poa trivialis 


Festuca ovina 
fluita: = 


sylvatica 
Bromus secalinus 
sterilig 
giganteus 


pinnatus 
Avena fatua 


elatior 
Arundo phragmites 


Mo 

Dipsacus sylvestris 
pilosus 

Scabiosa succisa 

arvensi 


Aparine 
Cornus sanguinea 
Aphanes arvensis 
Potamogeton natans 


Myosotis scorpioides 
Lithospermum officinale 
se 


Cynoglossum officinale 


] 
f 
] 
Lycopsis arvensis 
] 
Primula ee 


Meniithice trifolia 
Lysimachia yoleers 
morum 
Nu mmularia 
Anagallis arvensis 
Convolvulus arvensis 


Verbascum ame 


um 
Vine 
Hyoseyamus niger 
Solanu 


gi Icamara 
Lonicera Periclymenum 
ampanula rotundifolia 
Tr 


Rhamnus catharticus 
uonymus europseus 

Ribes rubrum 

Hedera Helix 

Gentiana Amarella 
urium 

Cuscuta europea 

Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus 
album 


Ulmus campestris 


Hydrocotyle vulgaris 
Sanicula europea 
Caucalis arvensis 

pence ee ee 
reclios, Sphondylium 
Angelica sylvestris 


Bunium Bulbocastanum 
Seselia Carvifolia 


GILBERT WHITE’S SELBORNE PLANTS. 


Aithusa Cynapium 
Scandix Pecten 9 
Cherophyllum sylvestre 
emulum 
Pastinaca sativa 
Pimpinella Saxifraga 
Apium graveolens 
Aigopodium Podagraria 
Viburnum Lantana 


pulus 
Sambucus nigra 
Ebulus 
Alsine media 
Linum catharticum 


Drosera rotundifolia 

ifolia 
Berberis s vulgaris 
Allium 


N arcissus 13 Pocudo-Nereiasas 
Juncus conglomeratus 
effusus 
bulbosus 


nius 
Rumex sanguineus 


obtusifolium 

cetosa 

Steet 
Alisma Plantago A 
Hpichions a 


ram 
Vaccinium Myriillas 
Erica vulgaris 
cinere 
Tetralix 
Daphne Laureola 
ezereum 
Blackstonia perfoliata 
Polygonum Bistorta 
ys 


Adoxa Moschatellina 
Paris quadri 
Monotropa fv 


Ubrysdepioniis gota 


Saxifraga trydactylites 
ranth nnuu 


Saponaria hones 
Cucubalus Behen 
Stellaria Floste 
graminea 
Arenaria iene 


rubra 
Sedum Teléphium 
reflexum 


acre 
Foro Acctoat 
Agr a Githaco 
1eehnie Flos cuculi 

ioica 

Spergula arvensis 
Agrimonia Eupatoria 
Troskediia Peplus 


A 
Sempervivum tectorum 
Prunus insititi ia 


vium 


Crategus Aria 
torminalis 
Oxyacantha 

Pyrus Malus 

Spirea Ulmaria 

Rosa arvensis 


Rubus cesius 
fruticosus 
Fragaria vesca 


sterilis 

Potentilla Argentina 
reptans 

Tormentilla erecta 


eum urbanu 
Comarum palustre 
Chelidonium majus 
A age wee ~~ 


Tilia e 

Cistus Helaibentm 

Aquilegia vulgaris 

nein nemorosa 

Ranunculus Flammula 
repens 


vu 2 


291 


292 GILBERT WHITE’S SELBORNE PLANTS. 


Ranunculus bulbosus 
acris 
arvensis 
hederaceus 

Ficaria verna 

Caltha palustris 

Helleborus scart 


vir 
Clematis Vitalba 
Ajuga reptans 
Nepeta Cataria 
Betonica officinalis 
Mentha longifolia 
arvensis 


aquatica 
Glechoma hederacea 
Lamium album 


rubrum 
Galeopsis empty 
rahit 
Ga le obdolon 
Stachys sgh 
ustris 


Thymus serpyllum 
Melissa oo 
Prunella 


vulgari 
Scutellaria galericulata 


Lathreea mari 
Hhinanthae Crista galli 
Euphrasia sir 
Mel ntites 

e Fa syleatioum 
Pedicularis sylvati 


a us 
ontium 
Scrophularia nodosa 


Thlaspi Bursa pastoris 


Erysimum ore 
ite rea 


ria 
Raphanus Raphanistram 
Cardamine prate 
Sisymbrium N shedtiate 
Bic os 


Sinapis arv 
Geranium Hoctakiazh 
pratense 
robertianum 
molle 
Malva sylvestris 
ye meme 


Fumaria officin alis 


ciglioc’ 
Ulex europzus 


9 ” 
Ononis spinosa 


arvensis 
Anthyllis Vulneraria 
robus tuberosu 
Lathyrus a 
praten 
Vicia cracca 
sepium 


sativa 
Ervum tetraspermum 
Ornithopus perpusillus 
edysarum oe his 
Trifolium repen 
ieatetina 
arvense 
arium 
Medicago a are 
Lotus corniculat 
Hypericum sdicienantin 
humifusum 


elod 
Tragopogon pratense 
Picris Hieracioides 
Sonchus eldinouse 
. arvensis 


GILBERT WHITE'S SELBORNE PLANTS, 


Prenanthes muralis 
Leontodon Taraxacum 
ispidum 
autumnale 
Hieracium Pilosella 


mb 
Crepis tectorum 
ypocheris radicata 
Lapsana communis 
Arctium Lappa 
Serratula arvensis 
arduus lanceolatus 
nutans 


Bidens spare 


Kupato eres arhak nie 
Artemisia os ines um 


We Risitioee 
iginosum 
Conyza squarrosa 
Tussilago Farfara 
Senecio vulgaris 


obra 
agar 
Inula dysenterica 
Chrysanthemum segetum 
eucanthemum 
Matricaria Parthenium 


Anthemis Cotula 
Achillza oe 


mi 
Centaurea Cyanus 
Scabiosa 
acea 
Filago german 
Jasione montana 
Viola odorata 
canina 


tricolor 
Orchis bifolia 
Morio 


Orchis pyramidalis 
maculata 

Ophrys Nidus avis 
spiralis 


‘oe 


apile 
Serapias on 

longifolia 
A Ee 
Typha latifolia 
Sparganium erectum 


Carex paniculata 
ota 


rem 

sylvatica 
Betula alba 
Urtica urens 

aiok 


oica 
Poterium sanguisorba 
Quercus Robur 
Fagus sylvatica 
Corylus Ayellana 
Salix caprea 


Viscum album 


Mercurialis perennis 
Taxus baccata 
Ruscus aculeatus 
Bryonia alba 
Holeus lanatus 


Parietaria officinalis 
Atriplex patula 
Acer Pseudo ae 


campestr 
Fraxinus halle 
Equisetum arvense 


r) 
fluviatile 
imosum 
Ophioglossum vulgatum 
Osmunda Spicant 


Pteris aquilina 
Asplenium Scolopendrium 
Adiantum nigrum 
Polypodium vulgare 
Filix mas 
F. foemina 
aculeatum 


293 


294 NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS, 


Polypodium lobatum Agaricus lactifluus 
cristatum campestris 
Polytrichum commune verrucosus 
Lichen candelarius Boletus versicolor 
capreatus 
resupinatus uteus 
sylvaticus Phallu mpudicus 
pyxidatus Clavaria pistillaris — 
rangiferinus ophioglossoides 
Tremella Nostoc Lycoperdon Tuber 
Agaricus Chantarellus Bovista 
integer 


NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 
By Arruur Bennett, F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 134.) 


Tue nomenclature of some of the species of Potamogeton is 
difficult to deal with satisfactorily ; I propose here to discuss P. 
tenuifolius. Three distinct plants have been so nam d :—P. tenui- 
Jolius Rafinesque, Med. Rep. 409 (1811); P. tenuifolius H. B. K. Nov. 
G i. 297 (1815); P. tenuifolius Philippi, ined., in herb. 


The doubt about Rafinesque’s plant renders it inadmissible to 
adopt Philippi’s MS. name, although the plant to which he gives it 
1s a good species. I therefore propose to name it P. Aschersonii,* 


_ Its affinity is with P, pusillus L. and P. Berteroanus Philippi in 
<a erably in its leaves, 
but so many of the South American specimens of the pusillus group 
are badly preserved, that without ‘soaking out” it is difficult to 
determine their true character. 
I refer to it the following gatherings :—Chili, Philippi! Val- 
Paraiso, Bridges! Argentina, Hieronymus | Tweedie!? Uruguay, 
Columbia, Jameson ! Brazil, Gardner! Proy. Rio de 
Janeiro, Glaziou! 
- Aschersonii mihi. P, tenuifolius Philippi ined. Stems 
slender, terete, 6-18 in. long, branched, especially in the lower 
half; rarely with long (8-4 in.) internodes. Leaves variable, 


*I have ascertained from Prof, Ascherson that he has t named the 
plant, as I thought he might have don tas 


e, for the Fl. Brasiliensis, 


NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 995 


linear, 1-3 in. long, 1-14 in. poate 3- veined ; ea outer slender 
s- 


h 

duncles sle oe tse 14-24 in. ae spikes 4-6 lines Pine: with 
6-9 fru its. Sepals ovate, “with a rounded base. Fruit 24 lines by 14 
in. broad, ovate (or slightly obovate), nearly flat on the sides, and 
impressed with a shallow depression; the 3 keels oats defined 
by raised lines on the smooth surface of ie ventral face of the 
fruit, and without any tubercules ; toak prominent on the dorsal 


P. sprrinius Tuckerman in Sill. Journal, 2nd series, vol. vi 
p. 228 (1848). Dr. Morong, in his Mon. Fl. Fnarinth Naiad 
queries my reference of P. Zetterstedtit Wallman (Schl. & Mohl. 
Bot. Zeit. 1. 256 (1848), as belonging to the above plant. While a 
believing it does so, T cannot say I have seen a specimen to pro 
it. But it is of secondary importance, if I am right in believing that 
Tuckerman’s plant must bear the name of P. dimor phum Rafinesque © 
i 1817). 


€); 
. hybridus Michx. (1 08) In 1828, in his Flora of N. America, 
t. 84, vol. iii., he figured his oes and the plate seems to me to 
represent r: ‘spirillus, if there is any difference aes that and 


plant is different from his elt ras and hence from hybridus of 


Michx., and preferred the name P. dimorphwm for it ; and it seems 
to me that it must bear hal name, and that Tuckerman’s becomes 
a synony 


As Dr. Morong uses P. diversifolius Raf. for P. igs Michx., 
because the latter had been used by Thuillier (or rather Pentagna) 
for P. heterophylius Schreb., it follows that Barton's diversifolius 

will become a synonym of P. dimorphum Raf. 

But the “law” that is desired to be forced on us, “that any 
species or variety that has been so named, under any other species 
or variety, cannot be used in the same genus,”’ will be of somewhat 
difficult application. Students certainly will never know, and even 
monographers will not be safe, as proved by Dr. Morong’ s own 
work, where he must (by his own law) change the names of at least 


e American authors (Seay &c.) refer Barton’s diversi- 
Be not see how this could have 

been done with Barton’s plate in existence, = his and Rafinesque’ : 

positive declaration to the contrary. The e facts cannot be put 


‘ae. C. 

P, riurrans Roth, Fl. Germ. i. p. 72 (1788): ii. p. 202. In his 
recently published Monograph, Dr. Morong remarks that he hesi- 
tates to identify P. Lonchites of Tuckerman with the plant usually 


296 NOTES ON POTAMOGETONS. 


covsidered among European botanists as Roth’s, and gives excellent 
reasons for his hesitation. 
ave been for some time trying to unravel the difficulties that 


surround the question, and offer these remarks as a contribution to 


of the results given. We have no certain knowle of any 
specimen of Roth’s species being preserved in any herbarium; but 
there are at Mu ecimens in Schreber’s herbarium, named ag 
such, and gathered “In Seebach, 1775,” and others, ‘‘In Seebach, 
82.” It seems to me a reasonable inference that these specimens 
are from (or seen by) Roth; the more so because there are other 
8 @ same collection actually received from Roth, and 
Si are the plant we call fluitans in England 


r. Morong’s remarks that specimens sent to hi 
France under Roth’s name have fruit “ otally dissimilar’ from the 
Necker plant sent him by Dr. Tiselius. i 


Loire (Lloyd) are precisely our plant. A specimen from “ Varde, 
leg. Hempel,” which (except that it has no fruit) might well have 
, * 


After comparing the whole of the specimens I possess in fruit 
named P. fluitans Roth, I cannot discover any real difference, 
except such as proceeds from degrees of ripeness. Not having seen 
Dr. Morong’s lrench specimens, I can offer no explanation; these 


Raids is-ec-cacur a +t . © variation in the leaves in this 

titidie in 8 '. at no value can be laid upon Specimens named, 
From Australia I haye seen nothing th 

‘ae . at could be referred to 

luitans. In Polynesia, of the two species named by Chamisso 


aack “Ad ostium fl. Lena, Siberia,” I find to belong to my 
curs ure,’’ in her i 


ris. 


oO 
& 


t name, there being some difference in the fruits; but 
— alteration takes place in the fruits from half to full maturity, so that 
caution is needed not to describe merely conditions of growth. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. ; 297 
P, O-wathensis and P. marianensis, the former was founded on 


li 
the figure of that of the var. stagnatilis Koch of Reichenbach’s 
Icones, but. with two teeth at the base of the side of the fruit, and 
another at the base of the keel. Kunth, Enum. iii. 128 (1841), 
places all these species of ra under P. natans L.; but the 
form of the “ag refers them to the fluitans group. 

may asked peat the great peek made in the 
study of the Siem seg of plants of late ay “<j there 
not other characters that may be used beyond the old o e 
answer to this is, gti are indications of such; but, as in nak new 
things, oe wide Se, hn con ntinuoUs. use are needed 


befor wtp n be advanced a e than theo 
je rot the fruit of Kosh’s: S var. eignatilar in n Reichenbach’ 
Teones’ ‘Ths to me always been a puzzle; authentic examples 


Koch’s plant show no such Oe aaa beak : fataos they were 
drawn from immature exam 

I propose the following reitnrees as the best that can at 
present be adopted for this section :— 

. P. rxurrans Roth et auct. plur. The barren plant generally 
sonamed. Europe generally. Beyond Europe I have no certain 
Be that sie be least placed here. 

-. 1canus Chamisso, Linnea, ii. 226 (1827). P. 
Richard foune in herb. Buchenan! PP. Lonchites Tuckerman, 
n. Journ. Sc. & Art, 2nd Ser., vol i. 226 (1848).—Var. stagnatilis 


Koch (under fiuitans) Europe ! — Var. Noveboracensis Moron 
(under Lonchites). . Am i prensa y in Europe. Italy! 
Germany, Ober. a ee Heidelberg! Bruckhulm! Aargan! Si- 


lesia ! a a land (Jura), Michalet! Asia. Armenia, Radde! 
India. Punjaub! Africa. Algeria! Egypt! Socotra? America, N. 
Distributed en Canada! Brit. Columbia; southwards to Florida ! 
New Mexico! and Porto Rico! From the Eastern States, west- 
ward to Kentucky! Texas! California! 

Perhaps a better plan would be to give the Necker plant a new 
name, and place Lonchites Tuck. as a variety of it, or to consider 
oe a subspecies; but I am unwilling to give new names 

and sufficient reason can be found for so doing. W. 
shall Sicuibtlenis th in time obtain material to help in elucidating the 
obscure points in the hikeoey of P. fluitans Roth. 

(To be continued.) 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
TI.—' Borany or Bexonry’s Voyacr’ anp ‘Fiona or Nort 
AMERICA.’ 


In consequence of the printing of the dates of publication of the 
= of Hooker’s Flora Boreali-Americana* a short time ago, I 


* In Bull. Herb. Boiss. i. (1893), p. 298. 


298 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 


have received two letters from the United States, asking if I could 
ascertain the dates of issue of Hooker & Arnott’s Botany of Beechey’s 
Voyage in the ‘Blossom,’ and of Torrey & Gray’s Flora of North 
America. I have replied in general terms to my correspondents, 
but should like to put the facts which I have been able to get 
together on permanent record. ss 

The copy of Torrey & Gray in the library of the British Museum, 
Bloomsbury, is in its original buff paper wrappers, and from this 
I can submit the following statement as accurate, so far as the 
dates are correctly set out on these wrappers :— 


Vol. i., Part 1, pp. 1-184, July, 1838. 
» Part 2, pp. 185-860, October, 1838. 
» Part 3, pp. 861-544, June, 1840. : 
» Part 4, pp. 545-698, Index (711), Title, &c., pp. xiv., 
rrata, June, 1840. 
Vol. ii., Part 1, pp. 1-184, May, 1841. The wrapper has no 
printing on it, but I have taken the date from Silli- 
man's Journal, xli. (1841), p. 275. 
»» Part 2, pp. 185-892, April, 1842. 
» Part 3, pp. 898-504, February, 1848. 
No more issued. 


nas containing pp. 1-48, with ten plates, and came out in 
1830. As I have failed to find more than occasional allusions 


all new genera as below, as the dates therein given must have been 
gathered from some copy :— 

Part 1, pp. 1-48, in 1830 (as above). 

» 2, pp. 49-96, in 1882 ( Pterochilus), 
3, pp. 97-144, in 1882 (A denostoma), a 
, 4, pp. 145-192, in 1833 (Layia ; see also Torr. & Gray, ii. 
, i confirmation), 

, 5, pp. 193-240, in 1836 (Anisopappus). 

6, pp. 241-288 (no indication of date, owing to the absence 


“ 
~~ 


id 


= 
“ 


7 
~~ 


of any new genus). 
7, pp. 289-386, in 1840 (Heterocentron, &c., and several 
i t year), 


cited by Endlicher in tha yea 

», 8, pp. 887-884, in 1840 (Atenia, &e.), : 

» 9, pp. 885-482, in 1841 ? (Grayia, &e., cited by Endlicher, 
: 2) 


in 1 . 
» 10, pp. 433-(486), in 1841 (Sinelairia), 


A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND, 299 


The latter half of the work #8 etre H -_ to doubt, for 
pre Journal, Xxxix. 1840), pp. 172- s that parts 9, 11 


pa if correct, this shows “that the latter weahee were not of the same 
dimensions as the first part. It is in this direction that I seek 
for further  caeeas from any botanist or librarian who can 
enlighten m 


Daypon Jackson. 


A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND.* 
By A. G. Mors, F.L.S. 


Tue Flora of Ireland, as distinguished from that of the rest of 
the Continent of Europe, is remarkable from the presence of a few 
striking species which do not occur in Great Britain nor in Northern 
Europe. Nearly all of ii plants may be classed as Western and 
South-western in Ireland. Several of them are very abundant in 
their Irish stations. For instance, Daboecia polifolia, a striking and 
handsome species, occurs plentifully throughout Connemara and 
the barony of Murrisk, in Western Mayo; in fact, through the 
whole district view near Galway Bay and Clew Bay. This and 
Erica mediterranea are two of the most characteristic plants of the 
Irish flora; and, with EL. Mackuii, constitute a very striking group 
of pee ‘whose eae -quarters are to be found in Portugal and 
Spain. It o be remarked here that, ne ome ae oe one 
of these shia fis Tae is found in Clare, or Ker r Cork—for the 
South-west of Ireland has also its own dist tinet tate of site. 
most of which do not occur further north. In fact, the peculiarly 
‘‘Trish”’ species arrange themselves under four groups. 


I.—American Spectgs. 
Plants which are much more plentiful in North er lgie: and 
Eur ent. These 


for the most part do not occur on the European Cont y 
may be considered as the remains of a former land connection 
; ope were probably driven spore na during the 


may be held to be more or less Arctic species, as well as erico- 
European 
The best known of these North Americans is the rare orchid 
fe 


near Berehaven, and also in the valley of the Bandon river. 


This sketch is reprinted from an excellent shilling _ phe ge ch 
of pistons Pictorial Guide, recently published by Messrs. Gay & 
The Gui ontains articles by competent a authorities on other candied: of 
natural history, and is in this respect an important advance upon similar 
works. Mr. More has made one or two corrections in the reprint, which 
been slightly curtailed in unimportant particulars——Ep. Journ 


800° A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND. 


Another North American plant is the so-called ‘ Blue-eyed 
Grass” of Canada (Sisyrinchium angustifolium), which grows in 
great abundance between Woodford and ~_ eh Derg, in Galway, 

and has recently been found near Millto ae Killorglin, and 
sate ly in a few other scattered Véonlitied in Kerry. A third 
m 


ry scarce 
Kurope, and in ’ Britain occurring aly 3 in Renfrew, Dumbarton, 
in Nort ; i ion j 


d Kirk 
Herefordshire. e Sisyrinchium has given much trouble to 
botanists, for it is difficult to decide whether it should be con- 
sidered a native,—i. e., as having reached Ireland before the advent 
sp 


ae 
new ‘Trish Moonie in oor lends some support to the theory of 
its Arctic origin. e may assume that it aved tebe or during 
the glacial period on two separate points of Ireland,—Cork and 
magh,—both situated not far from the sea-coast. 
Ons more American species, quite lately asi lige in ani is 
is phe ‘ae age which was discovered onl y ag 
ar Cahirdaniel, Co. Kerry, by Mr. Scully, but he pe not sons yee 
i a Porte Dek With these may also be classed Naias flewilis, 
found in Galway and Perthshire, as well as in Carah and Killarney 
Lakes, and Eriocaulon say trad é, which occurs on the west coast 
of Ireland from Donegal to Cor 
e have next to enumerate the Western and South-western 
species, eile in the British Isles, find their head-quarters in 
ork and Kerry, and extend also to the European continent. Thes 


and eastward to the Cummeragh and Knockmeildown mountains of 
Waterford ; and thus is the mos st widely distributed of the whole 
West Irish group. 8. Geum and S. hirsuta (the latter probably only 
a variety) are found in Cork and erry only, and keep at a lower 
level than S. wmbrosa, which, in a as well as in Spain, 
nado quite at home among the alpine s 


ica salves eect species may be metbeatently arranged under the 


IIl.—Puants pistriguTep ALONG THE oe Coast From GALWAY OR 
ONEGAL To Kr 


Saaifraga umbrosa, Carum -ieeaticaas Euphorbia hyberna, As- 
plenium acutum (the last also in North-east Ire eland), Helianthemum 
guttatum, found on Inishbofin and Inish Turk (ranges from these 
islands to Three-Castle Head, Cork), 


A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND. 801 


III.—Puants in IRELAND PECULIAR To CorK anD Kerry. 
Arbutus Unedo (West Europe and Mediterranean), Pinguicula 
grandiflora (Alps and Pyrenees). The next four all occur in Eng- 


which is nowhere so abundant as in Kerry and Cork; and m 
friend Mr Colgan has seen it growing, usually at an elevation of 
from 5000 to 6000 ft., in the Pyrenees, where, however, it does not 
attain so luxuriant a growth asin Kerry. Arbutus Unedo, so abun- 
dant at Killarney, occurs also, but more sparingly, in Co. Cork, 
about Glengarriff, &c. 


IV.—Restricrep to CuarE, Gauway, anp Mayo. 


Neotinea intacta (the locality on Lough Corrib just reaches 
Mayo). Daboecia polifolia, Erica mediterranea, E. Mackaii. All 
these heaths occur in the Spanish Peninsula, and Neotinea near 
Nice, &e. 

With the West Irish we place Euphorbia hyberna, which, like 
Sazifraga umbrosa, reaches to the north of Donegal, and grows, 


ot ‘*Makinboy,” as mentioned by some old writers, and it is still 
used for poisoning fish; its acrid milky juice, mingling freely with 
the water, stupefies all the unfortunate trout which come within 
the range of its influence. Its use, like that of quicklime by 
P 


cillatum, Carex punctata, Rhynchospora fusca, Helianthemum guttatum, 
as 


Asplenium lanceolatum, Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, H. Wilsoni, 
Bartsia viscosa, Viola Curtisii, Simethis bicolor. 
st interesting species occurring on the borders of our 
district : the rare little orchid, Neotinea intacta, which was dis- 
bg 


covered myself and my sister, Miss F. M. More, nearly thirty 
rs a i : 


octopetala, Gentiana verna, Hieracium iricum, Selaginella selaginoides, 


Sesleria cerulea, and Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Neotinea intacta, and, 


802 A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND, 


with it, Rubia peregrina, Ophrys muscifera, and O. apifera grow 
together, at little above sea-level, and associate with the corn crops 
of Watson’s ‘agricultural zone.” So that it becomes difficult to 
say whether we are dealing with alpines descending into the agri- 
cultural zone, or with plants of the lowest agricultural zone in a 
very abnormal association. At any rate, we have here a commixture 


we think, may be fairly attributed to the exceptional humidity of the 
Trish climate, as well as to past geological changes and migrations. 
All the West Irish plants may be considered as species which 


in the same w: 
altogether related to the European, in such a manner that we may 
suppose it has immigrated from the adjoining Continent, and is, in 


th 
have immigrated from the adjacent Continent after the glacial 
period had passed away, and when plants and animals were 
advancing northwards, under an ameliorated climate. This dis- 
poses of the question as to whether some of them may not have 


Species was young, and thus we have still remaining in the Azores 
a = more closely allied to the original race of the Species. 


Cy INE HLora of Cork and Kerry is comparatively poor, 
and nearly all the rare species occur in Kerry only—Sawifraga hirta 
nis, Saussurea alpina, Aira alpina, ifraga aizoides, 


H. C. Hart several years ago. 
he following Lo Spxcrzs deserve particular mention :— 

Simethis bicolor, one of the rarest British plants, occurs plenti- 

a Derrynane Abbey, and in other places along the Kenmare 


A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF IRELAND, 803 


Bartsia viscosa is frequent in Kerry and South Cork, especially 
near the sea-c 

Lepidium tain (Dittander), perhaps a relic of ancient culti- 
vation, grow in Cork, at Corkbeg, and near Youghal Harbour ; 
and i is soko also from near the head of Kenmare River, and near 

insale. 


Subularia aquatica, and with it Isoetes echinospora, is found in 

Killarney Lakes. 
Helianthemum guttatum is plentiful near the old ruins on Three- — 

Castle Head, Cor 

Lathyrus mar ritimus grows, or grew, on the sandy shores of 
Castlemaine 

Galium bor aa is Pentel on the shores and islands of Killarney 

akes. 

Pyrola media is found near Ballyvaughan, and other places in 
Burren. 
Wahlenbergia hederacea occurs along the Flesk, near Killarney, 
and near Lispole Station, towards Connor Hill; also along the 
Rivers Lee and Bandon 

Cicendia filiformis is found on the shores of Lough Guitane, and 
at L rrane; at Waterville and Glenmore Lake, in Kerry ; 
at Berehaven, Glengarriff, Dursey Island, &c., in 

Orobanche Hedere. Muckross, on the ‘pbey walls, and on 
islands in the Lakes of Killarney, and at Derrynane, Kerry; fre- 
quent in Cor 

Lathrea Squamaria. Killarney. 

Monotropa Hypopitys. In Muckross demesne, Killarney; also 
in Galway and Sligo. 

Cuscuta Epithymum. On the sandhills near Ardfert (R. W. 
— 

ria repens is frequent about Bandon, with its hybrid progeny, 

a. sepium ) an 

Sibthorpia europea 1s plentiful on the northern slope of Connor 
Hill, at 1700 ft., _ thence descends to sea-level at Fermoyle. It 
occurs also at Annascaul. 

Calamintha Ctinopathieis Killarney; very rare. Near Muckross. 

Pi a grandiflora and cau hyberna are widely distri- 
— in the west of Cork and Ker 

ricularia neglecta, Killarney fed Tralee (R. W. S.). 

Euphorbia amygdaloides finds its only Irish localities in the aod 
of the Bandon River—at Castle Bernard Park, and in Dunderr 
Woo 


Epipactis ovalis grows in the Burren district of North Clare. A 
vari 
eihdlowtnors ensifolia grows near Killarney and Carah Lakes ; 
also in a wood at Glengarriff, and at Adrigoole. Wood at head of 
Lough Carah. Wood by t the Kenmare Koad, near Desyeannity 

ascade. Near Brickeen Bridge, pasa at sep Killarney. 

Allium Scorodoprasum. At Kenmare he woods at 
Muckross; Foaty Island, and a eee in ce near Bantry, 
where it was recently discovered by Mr, R. A, Phi a. 


804 FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


Simethis bicolor, as before stated, at Derrynane, and along the 
Kenmare estuary. 
uneus acutus. Plentiful on the warren at Rossearbery. 
Eriocaulon septangulare. In Lough Carah; in the Cloonee Lakes, 
south side of the Kenmare River; and in a mountain lake near 
Adrigoole. 


Lithynchospora fusca is abundant in South Kerry, extending to 


Scirpus parvulus. Along a stream near the sea at Ballybunion, 
‘Kerry (R. W. S.). It has become scarce at Arklow, the original 
i ion. 


Carex Bénninghauseniana. Near Killarney (R. W. 8.), A rare 
hybrid. 
: C. aquatilis. Near south end of Carah Lake, in several places, 
and abundant along a small stream near the Upper Lake of 
Killarney (R. W. S.). 
C. punctata is abundant along the shorés of Kenmare River, and 
occurs also near Ventry, Berehaven, Ardgroom, Waterville, Kerry 


P 08tL, 
to which may be added Astragalus Hypoglottis, peculiar, in Ireland, 
to the South Isles of Arran. 


extinct, along the south shore of the Shannon, near Foynes; and 
grows plentifully in the Isles of Arran; and in many localities in 
the north of Clare. There is a record of its having been found, 

an rs ago, on Cahirconree Mountain, near Tralee, but no 
botanist has of late been able to rediscover it, and it is feared some 
mistake was made. 

In concluding the above short summary of the characteristic 
plants of the South-west of Ireland, I gladly acknowledge the 
valuable and most friendly assistance which I have received from 
my friends Mr. Nathaniel Colgan and Mr. Reginald W. Seully ; the 
latter is now engaged in the preparation of a Flora of Kerry. 


ee 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 
ieee COMPILED BY 
Wittum A. Crarke, F.L.S, 
(Continued from p. 279.) 

Phyteuma orbiculare L. Sp. Pl. 170 (1753). 1633. “Mr. 
Goodyer «+ + + found it growing plentifully wilde in the inclosed 
chalkie hilly grounds by Maple-Durham neere Petersfield in Hamp- 
shire.”—-Ger, em. 455, 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 805 


1825 by Rev. Ralph Price, “near Ha dlo ow Down, in re onteld 
Sussex.”—Borrer in E. B. 8. 2598. 

Campanula =, a ie Pl. 166 (1753). 1570, 
‘‘Natales . . . montium pra . Angliz Occidue sunt.” 
—Lob, Adv. 139. “<Cpon the eiaiae hils apo Greenehyth in 
Kent,” &¢.—Ger. 865 (15 

C. Trachelium L. an Pl. 166 (1753). 1597. ‘In the low 
woods and aaa of Kent about Canterburie,’’ &¢.—Ger. 365. 

163 


. latifolia L. Sp. Pl. 165 (1758). 3. “In the yeere 
1626 I found it in great ats sig une upon the bankes of 
the River Ouse in Yorkeshi silw rom Yorke to visit Selby, 
the place whereas I was ees ne. kes n, Ger. em. 450. 

C. rapunculoides L. Sp. Pl. 165 (1788). 1800. “At Blair 
in Scotland. Fenwick Skrimshire, M.D.”—Sm. FI. Brit. i. 238. 


ut there is a specimen in Herb. Buddle (c. 1708) labelled 
‘‘ Brought into Danby’s garden at Hogsdon [Hoxton] out of some 
woods in Oxfordshire, among yew trees.’ See also Druce, Fl. Oxf. 
188, 


C. rotundifolia L. RE. oe 163 (1753). 1597. “ Wilde in 
most ibis of England.”’— 368. 
- Rapunculus L. Sp. PL 164 (1758). 1597. ‘Groweth in 
woods. Ger. 369. ‘ Prope Croydon in agro Surriensi.”—Huds, 
) 


C. patula L. Sp. Pl. 168 (1758). 1665. “Rapuntium fi, 
purp. At Effaton, a mile from Wigmore, Herefordshire.”—Merr. 


quo in loco Campanulam hance nostram provenire mihi r 
Littleton Brown, A.M., ut non videatur dubium, quin sha 
nobiscum Merretus intelligat plantam. oe eenins, Hort. Eltham, 
69 (1782). See also Townsend, Fl. Han 
Specularia hybri ida DC. Prod. a err (1839). 1633. 

’ Among the corn in Chelsey field.”"—Johnson, Ger. em. 440. 

Oxycoccus palustris Pers. Syn. i. 419 (1805). 1597. “Upon 
bogs and such like waterish and fennie places, especially in Cheshire 
and Staffordshire, where I have found it in great plentie.’”—Ger, 


1367. 
Vaccinium Vitis-Idea L. aa Pl. 851 (1758). yee “Tn 
Wosinerland . a place called Crosby tame waith.”—Ger. F 
. uliginosum L. Sp. Pl. 350 (1753). 1670. ‘At Gate en in 
ait iy a Hexham Da Pereth [Penrith], in the 
9 


moorish pastures. Th. Willisel.”—Ray, Cat. 809. 
yrtillus L. Sp. Pl. 849 ghee 1570. ‘In Anglia. 
fructum esitavimus.”—Lob. Adv 417. ‘In certayne woods of 


78). 
1. 895 (1758). 1640. “Hath beene 
of late dayes found in ‘the West part of Ireland,”—Park, Theatr, 


Arctostaphylos alpina Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii, 287 acne 
JournaL oF Botany.—Vou. 31. ([Ocr. 1898. 


806 ‘FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 


i i ticularly 
1777. “Upon many of the highland mountains... parti 
on those to cis south of Little Loch Broom, in Ross-shire,’ &¢.— 
Lightf. Fl. Scot. i. 215. : 
ws Uva-ursi Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 287 (1825). 1666. a 
miles from Heptenstall, near Widdop, on a great Stone by the 
River Gorlpe, in Lancashire.”—Merreti, 123 


—Lindl. Syn. 174, Previously known to Sir Charles Lemon : see 
EK. B. Supp. 2618. : 
-_E. Tetralix L. Sp. Pl. 853 (1758). 1570. “ Saxosis monti- 
bus Anglix occidue ad Bristoiam exilior fruticat.”—Lob. Adv. 447. 
-. E. Mackaii Hook. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 158 (1835). 1835. 
Discovered by William MacCalla near Roundstone, Connemara.— 
Hooker, 1. ¢. 
_ B. cinerea L. Sp. Pl. 852 (1758). 1597. “Hampstead 
Heath.” —Ger, 1199. ; 

-_ E. vagans L. Mant. ii. 230 (1771). 1670. ‘By the way-side 
going from Helston to the Lezard-point in Cornwal, plentifully.”— 
Ray, Cat. 101, 

_ E. mediterranea L. Mant. ii, 229 (1767). 1831. Discovered 
by J. T. Mackay, in 1830, in Connemara [Urrisbeg Mountain] .— 
2, 176. 


pla 

140. But see Pennant, Voy. ii. 245 (1774). 
Phyllodoce taxifolia Salish. Parad. t. 86 (1806). 1812. 
‘* Discovered at Aviemore, in Strathspey, and in the western isles 
of Shiant.”—H. B. 2469, _ « Fir 

Brown, of Perth.”—Sm. E. FI, ii. 222, 
aboecia polifolia D. Don in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. xvii. 160 
170 Lhw d +s oe 


- Pyrola rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 396 (1753). 1640. “In 
Yorkeshire, Lancashire, and further North, yea even in Scotland, - 
in the woods. every where,”—Park. Theatr. 510. : 

- P. media Sw. in Vet. Ac. Handl. (1804), 257. 1807. Dis- 
covered by N. J. Winch in Northumberland.—Winch’s Bot. Guide 
to Northumberland and Durham, ii. 19. 5. B. 1943. 


FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS, 807 


P. minor L. Sp. Pl. 896 (1753). 1696. “ se" Stoken-Church- 


. Woods on the right hand going towards London, as I am informed 
Mr. Bobart.”—Ray, Syn. ii. 243, where it is condoned with P. 
rotundifolia. 
P. secunda L. Sp. Pl. 396 (1753). 1690. ‘Shewn me by 


Mr. Witham in Haselwood ee: near Sir Walter Vavasors Park 
in Yorkshire.”— Ray, Syn. 

Moneses grandiflora ‘8. F. “Gray y, Nat. Arr. ov 403 (1821). 
1793. Found in 1792 near Brodie House, Scotland, by James 
Brodie and Mr. James Hoy, near Gordon Castle, in ett “Both 
these gentlemen we believe are equally entitled to the honour of 

B. 146. 


Hypopitys Monotropa Orantz, Inst. ii. 467 (1766). H. 
multiflora Scop. (1772). 1677. stage am Oxon. — Plot. 


H 146 (‘* Orobanche Verbasculi odore”’ 
Statice Limonium L. Sp. Pl. 274 a 1597. ‘* Upon 
the wiillés of the fort —- megane in the salt ani es 
y Lee in Essex,” &¢.—Ger 


Ss. ae 
Smith in E. B. 8. 2 1597. ‘Upon the chalkie cliffe going 
from the towne - Margate downe to the sea side.’—Ger. 333. 


See G. Bo Smith, 
iculata Su. BE. B. 828 (1795). 1746. “ sori on the 


coast “of Norfolk by Mr. Henry Scott.”—Blackst. 
rmeria maritima Willd. Enum. Hort. Bartle i. 883 (1809). 
1570, ‘‘Arearum margines ornant Pelee et Angli, apud quos in 
maritimis frequens 0 oritur.’—Lob. Adv. 189. 
Hottonia palustris L. Sp. PL — piece a ‘‘T have 
not founde such plentie of it in any plac in the water 
oe adioning to Saint George his Yhelde aes Ceelion ”__Ger. 


edeinta vulgaris Huds. i. = aie aga “ Arthritica 
... ab Anglis dicitur a prymerose.”—Turn. Libellus.  ‘ Our 
primrose e, which I never saw grow i in any place, saving in England 
& East Freseland. »__Turn. iii. 80 (1568). 

_veris L. Sp. Pl. 142 (1753). 1568. ‘ Coweslippe 
there are jo kindes of them . . . one is called in the West contre 
of some a Cowislip & the other an ae and they are both call in 
Cambridge shyre Pagles.”—Turn. iii. 80. 

P, elatior Jacq. Mise. i. 158 (1778). 1841. Edinburgh Cat. 
of British Pl. ed. 2. Specimens sent by H. Doubleday to H. 
Watson from Bardfield, Essex, reported as such.—Phytol. i. 232 
(June, 1842). Turner's Oxlip (see under P. veris) may have been 


P. farinosa L. Sp. Pl. 148 (1758). 1597. “In Harwood 
neere to Polaokbains 3 in Lancashire,’ &c,—Ger 
x 2 


808 ay : SHORT NOTES. 


P. scotica Hook. in Curtis Fl. Lond. t. 188 (1819) (ed. iveker). 
1819. Found by Mr. Gibb, of os eee on Holborn Head, ne 
.Thurso in Caithness. —Hooker 
Lysimachia Shea ra t. Sp. Pl. 147 (1753). 1688. 
‘“Nuperrimé peritissimus. Botanicus D. Dodsworth, in Anglia, 
Comitatis itoranshtid bedenitali parte hance invenit. ”—_Ray, Hist. 
li. 1023. 
‘Le vulgaris L. Sp. Pl. 146 (1753). 1548. “It groweth by 
the an syde beside Shene.’”—Turn. Names, E. ij, back. a 
L. Nummularia ia Pl. 148 (1758). 1548. <‘ Herbe jj. 
pence or two penigrasse . . . growet th in moyste groundes,”’ &¢.— 
Turn. Names, H ij, back. 
orum. L. Sp. Pl. 148 (1758). 1570. ‘In Anglix 
nemoribus, Deisqne opacis ... in — densa et amoena sylva 
ego proxima.”—Lob. 
ntalis opea L. Bp. Pl. 344 (17538). 1620. “Tn 
betuletis  Seotit ey D. Cargillus, ex Scotia misit.”’—C. Bauhim, 
Prod. Th. Bot 
Glaux maritima Ho. Sp. Pl. 207 coe 1570. ‘Angliz 
plerisque mari céterminis.”—Lob. Adv.178. ‘Between Whitstable 
and the yle of Thanet in Kent,” &c. eer: 4 48 (1597). 
(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


Cyperus Fuscus 1x Hants, — On Fi hag 25th, in company with 
the Revs. R. P. Murray and EL F. Lin nton, I discovered on a wet 
piece of cacgnt near Ringwood, Hants, a fair quantity of Cyperus 

cus. Probably in ordinary seasons the ground where it grew is 
less approachable, which _ ant for its not having been 
previously detected.—W. R. Lr 
must “et be forgotten that the New Forest is one of the 
places in a which the mischievous secon of plant-introduction has 
been lately carried out. There is no particular reason why t the 
Cyperus should not be native a Ringwood, but it is necessary to 
bear in mind the possibility indicated above. See Journ. Bot. 1892, 
224, os —Ep. J ogg Bo oe 

EXLATINE HEXA in War ning. — An interesting result of 
. the joae shalzntied ” aah waa “the rediscovery of this mi 
water-plant on Augus et 26th, cate = leshill Pool, Warwickshire, 

where I found it growing in abundance on the dry, black 
ed of the pool, which is sides covered with a considerable 
quantity of water. This plant was first found at Coleshill Pool 
Lloyd, who sent specimens to 
df tang ate but <d had not been seen there for many years.—— 
a iG 1ENS.— Hrucastrum Pollichii has rks ge on 
Newmarket Heath; there are about a dozen plants. In e 


d ery 
respect they are like specimens from Weedon in Prof. Babington’ 8 


_ SHORT NOTES. 809 


herbarium. Centaurea solstitialis has appeared in a lucerne field at 
Grantchester. This is the second record since 1848. Symphytwm 
tauricum and Petasites fragrans occur now in several places near 
Cambridge, and Campanula rapunculoides has sprung up in ¢ 
siderable quantity on the site of a Roman villa near Reach, 
unearthed during last winter.—J. Henry Burxit. 

Exxocuaris acicunaris Sm. — A peculiar form of Eleocharis 


n- 


in that country. The form in question flourishes in from two to 
four feet of water, covering the bottom with a thick growth like 


short grass. T are of about normal length,--two to fou 
inches,—-not drawn out, as mentioned in Babington’s Manual and 
Syme’s English Botany as oce rring this speci - 
merged; and they are apparently invariably destitute of inflorescence, 
all the specimens I exa eing uniformly barr The 

are translucent and very slender, collapsing into a encil when the 
plant is taken from the wate I first noticed this plant in the 


of somewhat rare occurrence in Ireland, and I did not feel sure as 
to the identity of the lacustrine form till Mr. A. G. More verified 
my determination.—R. Luoyp PRAEGER. 

Duration OF COcHLEARIA GROENLANDICA L.—I find that this 
species is not necessarily annual or biennial. Specimens in m 
garden, brought from E. Ross in 1891, have flowered two summers 
in succession, and are still thriving. The plant thoroughly main- 
tains its distinctive characters.—Hpwarp S. MarsHa.t. 

LLIMoOsELLA AQUATICA IN Inecanp.—Early in July last, Mr. O'Kelly, 


r 
having apparently, after submergence, cast off most of the old leaves 
with the ripened fruits, and developed a fresh crop of bright green 


810 INDEX KEWENSIS. 


young leaves, the stems of which were in some instances elongated 
to as much as four or five inches. This stage of the plant’s — 
does not appear-to have been Patras noticed, and may be due 

the abnormal season rs elly has, since my visit, sanction 
the Limosella in two other localities in seer neighbourhood of Gorst, 
in the Co. Galway, and no doubt the very dry 5 sotto and consequent 


pl 
thy under water, and has thus ee the notice of botanists. 
The discovery now is a — and valuable addition to the Flora 
of Treland.—H. ©. Levin 


Papaver Ru ar. stricosum Benn.—In a note which 17 ei 
in this Tokenat last year (Journ. Bot. p. 809), I described some 
periments which appeared to show that the above-named sabiehy 
was really little more than a sporadic and unstable form. Further 
experiments this year have confirmed this conclusion. From a 


summer rais plants in thiée different lots grown under con- 
siderably tanving conditions. The results were as follows :—The 
first lot (of 8) contained 8 of the var. and 5 typical Rhwas; the 
second (of 20) produced 6 of the var. and 14 typical; the third (of 
21) produced 10 of the var. and 10 typical (one plant had the 
peduncles verv sparingly setose, with bristles somewhat appressed, 
but not very decidedly so, and may be considered an intermediate 
form. Totals, 19 var. strigoswm ; 29 typical Rheas.—H. N. Drxon. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum Nomina et ananame 
enerum et Speci erum a Linnaeo usque 


planta subjectis. _Sumptibus beati Carotr Rosertr Dar 
ductu et consilio Joserpm D. Heo OKER confecit B. Dares 
ackson. Fasciculus I. [4to, pp. xvi, 728. ie Dendvouum|. 
Oxonii e prelo Clarendoniano [Sept.] mpcccoxm. £2 2s. net. 


‘*SHortiy before his death, Mr. Darwin informed me of his 
intention to devote a consi iderable sum in aid or furtherance of 
some work of utility to biological science; and to provide for its 


arte ion 


* Low-lying lands, in the limestone districts, usually flooded in winter, 


INDEX KEWENSIS.” 811 


‘**T have only to add that, at his request, I undertook to direct 
and supervise such a work; and that it is being carried out at the 
Hevbativies of the oo Gastlati: se with the aid of the staff of 
that establishment.— . Hooxe 
With this brief prefatory note is launched into the a 
world one of the most important works of reference which has ever 
appeared. What Dr. Murray’s vast Dictionary, which is issui pe at 
too long intervals from the same press, will do for the Hnglish 
language, Mr. B. D. Jackson has done for the spikceenia botanist : 
and his work will at once take its position as an indispensable 
factor in every botanical librar 
The readers of this Journal have been kept au courant with the 
x gtopt of ~ work, and Pot J a De explained at some length* 
the lin which it was to be carried out. It is therefore 


for the piceoecs of genera 
e last edition of Pritzel’s Nomenclator appeared in 1841, and 
is, brought up to date by the inclusion of the 


pidilienici of —s name cite 
This statement makes manifest, without sag 4 further demon- 
stration, ‘ais magnitude of the task which ackson has under- 
. Itis to be regretted that Sir Joseph Hooker, in the preface 
which has been quoted at length, has not made it more clear that 
the work is in the main Mr. Jackson’s cid 0 and that it has been 


has distinguished himself in every branch of botanical science, 
has never a ar ta tradstion, Doubtless, with the cou- 
cluding part of the ackson will give an account of its 
history, and ker pinotlatss the a <M help which he has 
received from the Botanical Department of the British Museum, 
and oa 


* Journ, Bot, 1887, 67, 150. 


812 iNDEX KEWENSiS.- 


Before commenting on the Index, it is essential to recognise the 
great obligation under whic h Mr. Jackson has laid the systematic 


no one to whom the work co ave been more fittingly committed 
For such a task, a thorough knowledge of bibliography is required, 
and Mr. Jackson has alre Ov tence, not onl 


d 
his Guiide to the Literature of Botany, but by numerous other papers, 
many of them printed in this Journal, showing that careful regard 
for details and due appreciation of their a which i 
essential to thorough work in this direction. It had come to be 


the drudgery which such an undertaking involves—a drudgery of 
‘ h ts - 


to avoid the necessity of causing himself to be cited as the 
authority for any combination of names; and in this he contrasts 
— ably with too many modern writers, especially in America, 
Ww . ae vine considered reedaahaten of disused names seems to 
fave pom actuated by a de esire to “obtain a eh notoriety by 
combinations.”” Changes of nomenclature on a large 

t 


ackson has acted with judgment as well as with modesty in not 
attempting them. He yes a as the correct name of each 
species that under which it w st placed in its recognised genus 
This of course will not sa atisfy ahaten who attach a Mth sancticy 
to the earliest specific name; but it is at least a definite course, aa 
e said more than once in these pages, is the one w 
appears to me the most satisfactory. 

T rings me to the only serious omission—that of the date 
of publication after each specific name. Such an addition, made at 
ps time of extracting, would not have added materially to the "gestae 

would it have increased the bulk of the book; while it would 
have greatly added to its value. The plan adopted by Richter in 


sos access to a large library, especially en ~ Jackson’s decision is 
not invariably to be accepted werent que 

As an illustration of my ing, I will take the synonyms of 
be plant for which Mr. Saiion, retains the name Cypripedium 

tabile. These he cites thus :— 
peste Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. (1791) 78.—Am. Bor. 

album, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. I. iii. 808 = spectabile. 

candulense, Michx. FI. Bos . Am. ii. 261.= spectabile. 

hirsutum, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. VIII. no. 3. = spectabile. 

7 Walt. Fl. Carol. 229 = spectabile.’ 

he simple addition of the dates to these names show 

sleanie.t that three of a ste adduced as synonyms take stieanes 
of the one retained ; 


INDEX KEWENSIS. 818 


album Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. I. iii. 803 pies 
canadense Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 261 (1803). 
hirsutum Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. VIII. = 3 (1760). 
Regine Walt. Fl. Carol. 222 (1788). 
Salisbury, . se amt knows, had odd peaks on perms i 
and thought it no blame to supersede a name by one. which 


possible doubt, onever is set at rest o reference to di 
Herbarium, now in the British Museum, where there is a ast 
scapes labelled ‘* Cypr sagen rhe This is the name which 

t stand. r. Jackson also allows Salisbury’s C. humile (1793) 
to penta C. pth Ait. (1791), which he mee. would not have 
done had the respective dates been before 

Yet another Cypripedium must change ite name. Mr. Jackson 
cites— 

« flavescens [DC. in] Red. Lil. i. t. 20 = areas 
pubescens Willd. Hort. Berol. i. 18-- 

C. pubescens was first published by Willdenow, Be in ‘the Hortus 
Berolinensis (1816), but in Sp. Pl. iv. 148 (1805). Even 80, 
however, flavescens Bitte it, for the first volume of Redouté’s 
Liliacées came out in 1802: both must yield to hirsutum Mill, 
1760). In connection with Cypripedium I may note that Prof. 
Ascherson’s “ emendation,”’——-Cypripedilum,—published in 1864, 
finds no place in the Index. 

Another advantage gained by adding the date would be the 
immediate determination, ceteris paribus, which of two retained 
species bearing the same name--a more requent ane than 
might be supposed, and one which the Indew will do to avert 
in the fuente entitled to priority. When we find anedee Calce- 


“hypoleuca, Benth. in DC. Prod. x, 222. 
hypoleuca, Meyen, Reise, i. 224.” 
the addition of the roe each would at once settle which plant 


had ara claim to the 
I think I have said eno to justify my oe as to adding 
to each species the date at which it was pu ished; and, having 


man 
re Vello £0. As it is, one finds side by side, in precisely similar 
type and mode of Saree 
‘Drurii, Bedd. Ic. Ind, Or, i. 23,—Ind. Or. 
epidendricum Vell. 1 Fl Flum, is, t. 64,--Bras.:” 


814 INDEX KEWENSIS. 


eats ire a Cypripediun n. Two o ther species of  Vellor o’'s— 
cothurnum and socco—are in the same ponitian ; a fourth, vittatum, has 
been identifie _ Mr. Jackson cites only the plates of these porn 


appearance of such names without any warning as ‘~ their soe 
is calculated to mislead the statistician who attempts to estimate 
the number of plants ina genus. In some cases a “quid?” or a 


cautionary aoe might well have been more frequently 
employed. The use of square brackets would have met the case. 
Another class of entry which is likely to mislead is exemplified 
under Cerber 
A cee ‘Kor Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 891 = Kopsia abesteg 
ruticosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19; Fl. Ind. i. 691— 
fie ts it would seem that Roxburgh’s /ruticosa is a 1 ditornt 
plant from that of Gawler, and is to be retained as a species; but 
Gawler aéecribed his plant froth Roxburgh’s MSS., and cites for it 
the Hortus Bengalensis as cited above. There gala therefore be 
only one entry for this plant :— 
**fruticosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19 = Kopsia fruticosa.”’ 
In the case of nomina nuda, some such indication is even more 


monograph of sc emir are five names, ‘‘mihi nomine 
tantum note.” Eliminating one which Mr. Jackson has suc- 
ceeded in reducing, these pect thus :— 
‘i. atrosanguinea, Van Houtte Cat., 1851. 
AX. candida, E. G. Henderson Cat., "1851. 
repens, Van Houtte Cat., 1851. 
BE. Pcie Paxton Bot. Dict.” 

These four names seem to me of exactly similar value; yet a 
Jackson prints the first in italics, the second and fourth in Rom 
(as if duly ee ae ma accredited by botanists), "and omits the 
third altogether 

0 not 5 on what ‘eae ee are occasionally 
admitted. For example, Mr. Jackson i 
** Cypripedium Harrisianum x , Reichb. fi in ne Chron. (1869) 108”’: 
a cross between C. barbatum and C. villosum. But there are dozens 
of precisely similar hybrids which find no place: e.g., C. Ains- 
worthii X, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. ven xi. — Wh is one 
taken, while all the rest are left? In other these garden 
creations are more prominent, notably in Foun, where we have 
among others— 


*Orianat x Pars.ex Van Houtte, Fl. des Serres, xii. (1857), 159, t. 1265.” 


. es oe Phan. V. " t. 2. 


Cypridium Harrisianum x. is printed in italics, Bouvardia Oriana x in’ 
eine : fas find pniee core ral this difference, 


iNDEX KEWENSIS. 815 


I am at a loss to understand why this finds a place i in the Index, 
which is one of genera and species, not of hybrids and garden ~ 


: u urs | ods r 
et Rosalinda sont nés dans la belle petite ville de Brighton (Sassen), 
célébre par ses bains et ses péchers,” her birth being due to t 
sxentiahe of ‘‘M. Parsons, eee au dit Brighton,’* whose eh 
t kso “ 


has acted with regard to nam ‘‘why some be abolished and 
some retained.” ‘Th per in this Journal already mentioned 
supplies much of this information; but the botanist who is not 


s that Acerates = = Gomphoca rpus. So, on the faith of the Gener 
Plantaram, cadeiel IM r. J sicko follows, i it does; but so equally ihe 
Anantherix Nutt., shia Gray restores in ne same @ paper.t Yet 
Mr. Jackson does not say of this, ‘‘= Gomphocarpus”’: no, he says, 
‘‘ — dsclepiodora A. Gray.” But Acerates and Anantheria are restored 
by Gray on one and the same page; and are equally sunk under 
Gomphocarpus by Hooker and Bentham! ‘The reason for this I do 
not peo for it does not appear that the following of the Genera | 
explains it. But I suppose it is such following that explains why a 
generic name is in many cases adopted which is sexes si the 
oldest, for Mr. Jackson sinks that as a synonym, and adds, ‘* nomen 

rius.” The well-known laxity of the Genera with sor to date 
of Nositoelatiire causes some regret that so excellent an opportunity 
of putting things right should have been let sli 

It is, however, certainly to be regretted that where the ar 
of the Genera does not stand in the way, Mr. Jackson should not 
have restored the correct name. He keeps up pees ora A, Gray 
(1876), citing as synonyms Anantherix Nutt. (1818) and +“ Anthan- 
otis Rafin. Fl. Ludov. 52, 149 (1817) nomen prius.”’ It is true 7 


Jackson unites them, and vat maintains a name publi aa in 1876 
for a genus which has two earlier specific names ! 


* IT cannot resist the rr ep to cite M. Van Houtte’ 8 amusing note on 


Oriana :—“ Si lon 1 ~ eman nous 
supposer q wil s’Agit ici de qu sian prénom anglais Spadenieg name) — nous 
n’ayons pas rat 8 i sy que de la signification d’autres noms familiers en usage 


chez eux, tels que Bab, Beck, Bess, Cis, Dy, Dolly, Harriot, Ib, Kate, hg On efit 
bien pu nous éviter des récherches A cet eek ; on aime a savoir ce qu’un nom 
répresente e et nous devons ces renseignements 4 ceux d’entre nos abonnés qui y 


+ Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 66. 


816 INDEX KEWENSIS. 


Again, Mr. Jackson appears to alter the termination of his names 
when it seems to him oe ~~ = his explanation, I am 
inclined to demur to t H the species of Anantheria a 


eminine the masc ; 
and, from a ipanptiaal point of view, 1 think each name should 


akes, h 
* Nuttalianus G. evar Ante of Fina es a **numilis Nutt.,” 
in place of oo as Mr. Jackson would have written it, 
milus. The right name for this plant, by the way, is Podostigma 
pubescens. 


ris. in 

Areb. iv. 13 (1868) (= der maenty oaloiaaany4 is Phen and the waishh 
sed form, Amerinnum (for Amerimnon), finds no place: few misprints 
erides shibatianum is one (for Shibatitiana, itself a misprint for 
Thibdtstianes) : ; Bassia sem sg (for Motleyana) is another; and 
Cardamine Heyneana should be Hayneana: and very few failing 
cross-references, such as ‘‘ Decaneurum inate = Centratherum 

Jrutescens,” &@ name not to be found under Centratherum. Some- 
times, in the absence of explanation, I find citations which I do 
not understand, such as ‘‘ Bursa-pastoris, [Tourn n.| Rupp. Fl. Jen. 
77 (1745) "for, so far as I can read, Rupp’s genus was Bursa; he 


ogo botanists, and more than once denounced by Mr. Jackson. 
am I convinced that “Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant.,” as an 
iuthontty for species, is correct in most of the cases in which Mr. 
Jackson (following Kew use) employs it. Occasionally non-existent 
names are quoted, such as ingen Warmingti, Mr. Jackson prints 
ieges mayrne Cogn. in Mém. Com. Acad. Belg. 8vo. xxvii. 
(1827) 21—Bras 
Warmingia Cogn, le 
Even the most advanced neo- ekivariied nomenclaturist would shrink 
from naming two species thus similarly on the same page; and the 
latter, as I me said, does not exist in M. Cogniaux’s paper. 


the pe (ath practice of rah Hohe all such names with a small 
initial; the Kew Bulletin takes a middle ¢ course, spelling nouns 
with a capital and adjectives with a small initial--Carsoni and 

tanum, Except when alterations of this kind ensure con- 
formity with general practice, they are fidgetty and useless; the 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 817 


charm of novelty, which seems to be the only reason for their 
rs eg hardly compensates for the setting aside of a recognised 
custom 
The abbreviated. titles of books are, as might be eer from 
Mr. Jackso “a su for ready identification; ‘‘ Wall. List’’. 
would have been more accurate than ‘“ Wall. at,” be ‘“‘ Ker- 
Gawl.”’ for John Bellenden Ker (who was afterwards Gawler, but 
never combined the two names, selene a having then come 
into senegal is inaccurate, though conven 
could linger longer over this delightful book, sides column of 


which suggests pace tee investigations. Mr. Newbould once said 
of Pfeiffer’ s ig tor that each entry oe coal for a 
paper and this is far more 


true of th « Kewensis. But t 
eeige cies of-space forbid a longer sniveatigation of its merits, which, 
indeed, are sufficiently apparent. 

The Clarendon Press have, it is needless to say, done their work 
admirably; but a word of pononeenee bose be uttered with regard 
to their allowing the Index to be an ced as ‘now ready,” at 
least two months before its actual cian. One consequence of 
their eateries 3 prospectus was that at least one London newspaper 
spoke of it as a fait accompli, and announced that part ii. was nearly 
ready; and an American journal for August referred to it as having 
‘*just been issued in London.” It is to be ie oped that the promise 
held out that the work will be completed in 1894 will be realised ; 
it will assuredly not be Mr. Jackson’s fault if his magnum opus has 


not by that time arrived at its conclusion. Jiued Baran, 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Bot. yAeeigiese (No. 87). — J. J. Kieffer, ‘ Beitrag zur Flora 
Lothringens.’-—(No. 88). H. Heiden, ‘ Anatomische Charakteristik 
se Opeubietaeel) (1 plate). 
Bot. Megeeie (Tokio). — R. Yatabe, Mallotopus japonicus Fr. & 
Sav. (1 plate). 
Bot. ‘ote (Haft, 4).—H. W. Arnell, ‘8. F. Gray’s lefvermoss- 
slakten.’ — R. Boldb, ‘Nagra sétvattens-alger frin Grénland.’ — 
» Es Auitvengten, Malva borealis x vulgaris, Scleranthus annuus x 
SS 
ng (Sept. 16).—B. Frank, ‘Die Assimilation des 
ie "Sickstofl durch die Pflanzenwelt.’ 
Bull. Soc. Bot. France (xl.: Comptes rendus 8: Sept. 1).— 
i a ° Sea maak ‘Du réle du périe Zhe dans la racine du 


thivet fe la ia Vallée du Rébenty.’ — casi, Hine, "Lichen des environs 
de Paris.’ — G. Rouy, ‘ Doronicum ‘scorpivides’ (D. ng ee 
n.), -— A. Battandier, ‘ Zollikoferia anomala, sp.n 


‘ Herniaria hirsuta & glabra ; Scutellaria galericulata ws minor,’ — X, 


818 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO, 


Gillot, ‘Le or Onothera,’ — E. Pr rast ‘Une Maladie de la 
Ca —L. 


Barbe de apuc Le egué, ‘Sur un hybride probable des 
Stachys ee manica ve te —— P. Duchar ae. ‘Eloge d’ pea de 
Candolle.’—P. and, ‘ Sphéropsidées nouvelles ou rare 


Bull. “Torkey i (Aug.).—A. W. Evans, Lepidozia pari & 
Jungermannia Nove-Casarea, spp. un. (2 plates .— W. D. Matthew 


(2 plates). — F. L. Scribner, ‘ Southern Botanists.’ — A. Hollick, 
Potted He ue (1 plate). —E. L. Britton, «The Jeger Moss 


Enythea sok ).—E. L. Greene, ‘ Distribution of some Western 
Plants.’ — W. L. Jepson, ‘ Early Scientific Expeditions to Cali- 
fornia.’—I. Me Blockman, ‘Californian Herb-lore.’—J. Burtt Davy, 

otes.’ 


Sepasttes Chronicle (Sept. 28). — Phalaenopsis fugax Kranzlin, 
sp.n 


Trish meget ‘pie ).—G. Pim & E. J. MeWeeney, ‘ Fungi of 
the Dublin dist 
Midland Netra ( oe ).—J. E. Bagnall, ‘ Notes on the Flora 
of Warwick shire W. B. Grove, ‘The Fungi of Abbot's Flora 
rdiensis,’ 


: sagt Science (Sept.). = stakes ‘On Epiphytes.’ . 
Bot. Zeitschrift. (Sept.). —L. Linsbauer, ‘ Ueber die 

; grate yon Buomy tis" vii ge R. v. Wettstein, ‘ Die 
Arten der Gattung Euphrasia,’ — : kal, Rhizophlyctis Tolypo- 


H. Zu 
thrichis, sp.n es Bi Celakovy, vsky, ‘Veber den Nabel der Frucht- 
schuppen- -Apophyse von Pinus’ (1 plate). 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 


wer, . Han co 
the Foothill Station of the “College of Aurelian of the University 
of California. Several monstrous Cypripediums are here figure 
and described. 
Yer another Kew publication !—this time a series of volumes to 
be compiled from the Kew Bulletin. ‘The trouble of following 


bering six] of annual yolumes would defeat the [unspecified] object 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 819. 


in view: a volume now in course of preparation, to be followed 
from time to time by similar collections, deals with the subject of 
Vegetable Fibres.” The exertion of looking through six volumes is 
too much for those who read the Bulletin, and the Government, out 


a series of ‘‘collections” which will enable them to avoid this 
trouble. The art of bookmaking is not one which in these days 
stands in need cial encouragement the Kew authorities 


of offi 
wish to produce a useful work, they may be reminded that another 
summer has been allowed to pass without the production of the 
long and often promised, and greatly needed, Guide to the Gardens. 
HE disconnection of the articles in the Bulletin is “in accordance 
the principle laid down by the Government that + sndeiieliead 
of public interest a be piblichdd as speedily as possible.” But 
surely the Garden Guide is of far greater ‘‘ public interest” than 


information about this little-known group’ [the Aldabra Islands] % 

in great part consisting of a letter from the Administrator of the 
Seychelles "dated June 13, 1892, whack merely repeats some of the 
facts noticed on us [Natural Science] a year ago. 

Mr. G. F. Scorr Extior has started for Mombassa, whence he 
will proceed ‘direct to Lake ee Nyanza, for the purpose of 
ple ee Uganda. He is assisted by a grant from the ke 
Society, and the results of his previous journeys warrant the sup- 
position that he will bring back with him large collections of general 


THe non-appearance of ‘thes September number of Hardwicke’s 
peicuee leaio points to the cessation of the oldest established of 
r popular natural history journals. It was established by Robert 
Hardwicke 3 in 1865, under the editorship of Mr. M. C. Cooke, who 
was succeeded in 1872 by Dr. J. E. Taylor, its editor up to the last. 
Although it has for some time hardly occupied the Ushers which it 
held during the earlier years of its existence, it has been a source 
of information to many, and we trust that its "Seacxieon is but 
temporary. 
Pastor Knerpp, the Bavarian parish priest whose name is 
familiar in connection with his ‘‘ water-cure,” has issued a Plant- 
tlas, containing 69 pictorial i cdctapne Re of the medicinal 
plants he employs. The English version is brought out by Messrs. 
H. Grevel & Co., of King Street, Covent Garden. The figures, 


fr t 
carefully coloured. Although not sufficiently complete in detail to 
satisfy ms pean the hitle b ake is likely to be useful to those for 
od. 


820 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 


The Orchid Review seems to be making progress: the September 
number contains descriptions of three new species— Masdevallia 


Yr. 
Rolfe, who, we learn from the Journal of the Horticultural Society, 


- For some thirty years Jenyns was incumbent of a 
Cambridgeshire parish (Swaifham, Bulbeck), where he manifested 
much energy and devotion to his clerical duties, whilst his favourite 
scientific studies were by no means neglected. In the year 1850 


on succeeding to certain family property. In 1855 he founded the _ ) 
Bath Natural History Antiquarian Field Club, of which he became ' 
the first President. “Hig contributions to its meetings, like most of 

his published works, were mainly zoological, but in 1866 he read to ; 
the Club a long paper on the Bath Flora, which is printed in the 


and magisterial business; and he kept his resolution to the end 
A somewhat extraordinary confession for a naturalist, contained in 


this information we are indebted to a notice by Mr. W. G. Wheat- 
croft, published in Nature Notes for the current month, 


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NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS. 
By Baron Ferp. von MUELLER, K.C.M.G., M. & Pa.D., F.R.S. 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1892, P. 17.) 


may become cea ee to 25, or be increased to 60, or even more. 
Sir William Macgregor has sent separate A nae from Milne Bay, 
eEperently referable to this species. LE. persicifolius (Brongn. & 
Gris nn. Se, Nat. 1864, p. 856), from New Caledonia, may also 
prove ebaeenitc The East Dee, £. grandis is another closely 
allied plant. vag of the genuine HE. Ganitrus have also been 
received from the New Hebrides, where, however, the Rev. D. 
Macdonald Sotectea another Ela@ocarpus ‘of the Ganitrus series, 
which has probably the largest leaves of any species in this genus, 
unless #. undies and H. Milnei. They measure to fully 1 ft. in 
length, and to 5 in breadth, with petioles about 14 in long; they 
ie therefore “asger than those of E. Parkinsonii (Warburg in Engl. 
- Jahrb. xiii. 877), from which this species already differs in 
ierres et ‘at the a broadest rather below the middle, 
slightly undular at the margin, although not distinctly serrulated, 
and without any lustre, but contrarily gt equal dull green on both 
sides, and the secondary venulation more prominent, further i in only 
slightly laciniated petals; but it neroee with the plant from Ralun, 
in contrast to LE. Ganitrus, as regards the vestiture of the sepals, 
the much elongated setule of ag anthers, and the length of the 
filaments. Fruits have not been obtained. This singularly con- 
.> oe 


imperfectly known E. Milnei, to > hian Seemann attributes leaves 
gradually Sacieeel at the base, and flowers with only about aig 
stam is new plant impairs still ase Re strength of tl 


before me) the petals, which are of saiee thickish prere seem 
to cohere almost permanently, upwards particularly, forming the 
nearly conical corolla of that genus. Antholoma Billardierii 
(Vieillard, Pl. de la Nowv. Caled. 5, anno 1865) is also a large- 
leaved species. 

Exxocarpus epuuis Teijsm. & Binn. Nat. Tijdschr. Ind. xxvii 
25.— Leaves nearly opposite, on very short petioles, of rather thin 
texture, mostly lanceolar-ovate, somewhat acuminate, mucronular- 
denticulated, above ig beneath more copiously, beset with 
hairlets ; flowers axillary, few or occasionally only two gpl : 
sepals five, n narrow-lanceolar, outside brown-velvet ety, hardly o 
ego spreading; petals ates & slightly longer, elongate- oni 

t the upper end irregularly lobulated, outside except the margin 
Rea. pat except the upper part silky- -velvety; stamens — 

JournaL OF Borany.—Von. 81, [Novy. 1898.] Y 


822 NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, 


Branchlets much beset with short brown hairlets. Leaves to 
6 in. long and 2% in. broad, prominently costulated, the venules 
very conspicuous beneath ; inflorescence when well developed 


Anthers considerably shorter than the filaments, Torus very short. 
Style subulate, finally lengthening to 2 inch. Fruit seen only in a 
Semi-mature and somewhat deformed state, then less than 1 in. 
long, inside ligneous-hard, only one cell, so far as seen, forming a 
seed 


An authentic specimen of Z. edulis from the original place of 
discovery has a lesser indument, a 
b : 


not very firm texture, and conic-obovate fruits, dark outside, over 

an inch in length, on long pedicels, and ripening two seeds. 
AntHotoma TiregHemt F. y. M. in Vi 

(1892). — Branchletg tomentellous ; 

almost Ovate or some 


NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, 828 


with very minute hairlets; anthers much longer than the filaments, 
their setule not much shorter than the cells; fruit almost ovate- 
ellipsoid, three-valved, outside slightly rough. 

On Mount Yule, near its summit. Leaves 2-8 in. long, some- 


Sloanea Forbesii. — Branchlets tomentellous; leaves con- 
spicuously petiolate, almost ovate or verging into a roundish form, 
ightl at the margin, particularly blunt at the base, soon 
almost glabrous on the surface, puberulous beneath; flowers few or 
several, or occasionally only two together ; involucellar bracts very 
narrow, 8 or less, or absent; sepals 4 or 5, lanceolar on both sides 
as well as the peduncles, and pedicels velvety; petals somewhat 
longer than the sepals, crenate-incised at the summit, subile- 
velutinous, particularly outside; stamens 25-80, beset with minute 
hairlets throughout; anther-cells scarcely longer than the filaments, 
the terminal setule hardly shorter ; style rather long, downward, as 
well as the ovulary velutinellous. 
Sogere, at 1500-5000 ft. elevation; H. O. Forbes (278). 
Leaves to 6 in. long and to 4 in. broad, brittle. Pedicels to 
nearly 1 in. long, or variously shorter. Length of sepals hardly 3 in. 


On specimens of Sloanea Schumanni, or of some allied species 
occur stipules renate-cordate in form, 1-3 in. broad, bent down 


824 NOTES ON PAPUAN PLANTS, 


exhibits also large stipules and paired bracts, but they are connate, 
The requirement of abolishing Phenicospermum by reduction to 
Sloanea was surmised already (1872) by Baillon (Hist. des Plantes, 
p. 200), a suggestion acted on by Szyszylowics in his monograph 
of Tiliacee ; but Durand still upholds that genus. The quaternary 
or quinary division of the calyx and corolla in the genus Sloanea is 
not a constant mark of distinction, as shown also for S. australis by 
the late Rev. Dr. Woolls. 


W. MacG 

Schuurmansia, to 60 ft. high. The Papuan plant agrees so well 
with the definition and delineation given already (1797) by 
Cavanilles, that his species and ours seem unseverable. ‘The 
petals, however, are broader in proportion to their length, and the 
fruit enlarges variously into 8-5 primary expansions. In referring 
the New Guinea congener to the typical species, it should be 


dedication is quite out of place, when phytologically the memory of 
the great discoverer of Central America is to be honoured. 
Quinetia Maegregorii. — Almost glabrous; leaves on very 
conspicuous petioles, mostly cuneate-elliptical, entire, somewhat 
¢ e-costulated, beneath fuscescent and 
minutely dotted, the venules mmersed ; racemes simple ; pedicels 


longer stalked, the calyces are less angular, the style much shorter, 

d the fruit-valves are more emersed. Whe the ripe fruits of 

Q Pawkneri and the flowers of the Papuan species will be known, 
further distinctions may become obvious, 

is is the sixth species of the genus now on record, and it is 

the most northern; furthermore, it demonstrates how considerable 

psi aay various pervasion of the Australian element in the Papuan 


Geranium prtosum (Sol.) Forst, Prodr. 91.— i 
Stanley’s Ranges; SA W, eh : dig ale 
_ Fragments of this plant, clearly recognisable as belonging to 
this species, were obtained from intricately branched tufts of other 
highland plants of New Guinea, together with Coprosma repens or 
Some nearly cognate species, and with a new Hydrocotyle (H. 
azorellacea), much resembling a Huanaca in habit. 


SOME BRITISH POTHENTILLA-HYBRIDS. 825 


Biophytum albiflorum. — Generally unbranched ; leaflets 
forming 4 to 12 pairs, the two supreme elliptic. _— ithe others 
trapezoid-elliptical, all i ar apiculate and a glabrous, 

a 


leaves ac with very short hairlets; flowers cds small, usually 
on long pedicels; petals white or slightly reddish, hardly longer 
than the sepals; fruit about as long as the calyx, nearly globular; . 
seeds brown, shining, slightly rugular. 
long Margaret ar hr Bourawarri up to 7000 ft. on Mount 

Obree, chiefly on stone 

Stem to 6 in. aes ag but puberulous, exceptionally divided 
into 2 or 8 branches. Lateral leaflets to 4 in. long, and to } in. 
broad. Flowers in the umbels few, or two, or reduced to one. 
Pedicels sometimes nearly 1 in. long. Sade only about 4 in. long, 
streaked by several venules. Fruit pale brownish, almost. glabrous. 
This species is more delicate in all its parts than the ordinary state 
B., sensitivum, from which and its allies, moreover, the smallness 

f the flowers, ‘the white petals, ines the shape of the fruit dis- 
singuieh it. Its place will be next o B. Reinwardtii, from which, 


"(to be ane ) 


SOME BRITISH POTENTILLA-HYBRIDS. 
By tue Rev. E. 8. Marsnatt, M.A., F.L.S8. 


Some time ago Mr. W. H. Beeby (Journ. Bot. 1888, pp. 78, 79) 
gave the results of Herr Svanté Murbeck’s examination of various 
British Cinquefoils. He has since home good enough to forward for 
me a considerable series from the . H. Purchas’s herbarium, 
together with a few specimens of “ae own about which there was 
some doubt. The determinations indicate that these hybrids occur 
not unfrequently in the South and Midlands; and one which had 
not been detected at the time “ei the above- named paper was 
published has been added to our list. 

Herr Murbeck erage the name P, —— Neck. by a 


known from old time as Tormentilla nr =m ain this name 
specifically, after the absorption of the genus,” and probably 
most people will agree with him. * Indeed, the aides shuffling 
of names has become an intolerable nuisance. 

P. procumbens Xx reptans (P. mixta Nolte). Staffordshire :—Road- 
side bank on Ham Moor, near Alstonefield, Purchas; Dov edale, 
Ley, W. R. Linton dé Purchus. Herefordshire :—Between Broadmoor 


826 SOME BRITISH POTENTILLA-HYBRIDS. 


Common and Sharpnage Well, Ley ¢ Purchas; near Penteloe Brook, 
Woolhope, Ley ¢ Puwrchas. Pembrokeshire :—St. Issel’s, near 
Tenby, Purchas. W. Kent:—Hedgebank between Cranbrook and 
Bedgebury, Marshall, E. Kent :—Dry clayey bank in a meadow 
outside Chiddenden Woods, towards Tenterden, Marshall. Surrey :— 
Clayey bank, between Witley and Grayswood, Marshall (this is the 
plant mentioned in B. FZ. C. Report for 1892). 
: - procumbens x Tormentilla (P. suberecta Zimmeter). Stafford- 
shire :—On a walled bank at the Railway Station, Rocester; between 
the Railway Station and the Hotel, Rudyard; between Reap’s 
oor and Longuor; between Alstonefield and Longuor; all Purchas. 
Derbyshire :—Bradley, W. R. Linton. Herefordshire :—Near Gar- 
way Hill, 1850, Purchas ¢ Lingwood. Brecknockshire :—Llanwrtyd, 
urchas. §. Devon:—Hedgebank by Cann Plantation, between 
Colebrook and Shaugh, Archer Briggs (this closely approaches 
P. procumbens, for which it was gathered). Ireland, Co. Down :— 
Dry hedgebanks, Newtonbutler, 1849, Dr. hew. 

_ P. reptans x Tormentilla (P. italica Lehm. 1849, P. Gremlii 
Zimm. 1884, P. adscendens Gremli), Surrey :—Roadside near 
Grayswood, Witley, 1887, Marshall. E. Kent :—Clayey ride in 
Chiddenden Woods, Marshall. The specimens are somewhat young, 
in this case, and procumbens x reptans is a possible alternative ; but 
they seem to be better named as above. The hybrid has not pre- 


aware; but it can hardly be very scarce, haying regard to the 
— frequency and wide distribution of procumbens Xx rep- 
ans, 


It may be useful to translate Dr. Focke’s descriptions and 

remarks (/.¢. pp. 820-1) ; premising, however, that (as he indeed 

{ itu e allowed in dealing with such 

variable forms as hybrids eens assume, Specimen-matching 
uch :— 


- P. procumbens x Tormentilla. . . - Stem hardly rooting, 

loosely panicled above ; lower stem-leayes shortly stalked, upper not 

stalked ; stipules more or less deeply inci 

nen as im ee procumbens; pollen wi 
ult mostly abortive. Connecting the + i inter- 

NE ay cr & the two species by many inter 


- + « « Often very like P. procumbens; 
stem long, creeping, and often rooting ; leaves stalked, 8-5-nate ; 
leaflets more glabrous and often larger than in P. procumbens; 
stipules ovate-lanceolate, entire, or with soli 


pa pap flowers showy ; pollen containing but few well-developed 


sionally undivided, enerally 
rather strongly incised; pollen with many normal pei fruit 
pot rare. ‘This form igs very like procumbens x Tormentilla. P. 

ormentilla and P. reptans as a rule grow in different situations; 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE. 827 


but where they occur in company, Ag Ti in light wooded 
spots on loamy soil, the bynes soame are also apt to be plentiful. 
“3. P. procumbens x reptans. . . . Basal a quinate ; stem 
creeping, rooting ; flowers sien showy, to some extent 4-partite, 
but principally §-partite ; stem-leaves stalked, stipules undivided.” 


NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE. 
By G. Crarmer Druce, M.A., F.L.S. 


Durine my residence in Oxford, dating from 1879, I have been 
working at the Flora of the above e county——unt til 1885, however, only 
in a secondary degree to that of Oxfordshire. On the completion of 
my Oxfordshire Flora, and hearing from Mr. Britten that he did not 
contemplate the continuance of the work inaugurated in his useful 
‘*Contributions towards a Flora of Berkshire,” which was printed in 
the Tr patois of the Newbury Field Club for 1871, I decided to under- 
take the task of completing a Flora of Berkshire. Miss amie gai d 
I have had but few Spsaniots and as some parts of the county are 
rather difficult of access to one living in the extreme corner, the 
distribution of all he. plants is by no means exhaustively investi- 
gated ; yet the salient features, at any rate, of its Flora have been 
made out durin my explorations of the last eight years 


the works of Turner, Lobel, Gerard, Parkinson, How, Merrett 
Morison, Ray, Dillenius, and the more recent authors. e 
herbaria of Dubois, Bobart, Sherard, Dillenius at Oxford; that of 
Sir Joseph Banks, as well as the British herbarium of the British 
Museum, and that of Sir James E. Smith in dhe po possession of the 
Linnean Society, have also been examined. Many valuable MSS. 

of Goodyer, Lightfoot, Wm, Browne, Dillenius, Sheffield, Baxter, and 
others have been placed under requisition, so that the forthcoming 
Flora will contain as far as possible all that is now known of the 

plants of the district. 

Perhaps it may be well to state that while many of the old 
authors are en in Britten’s ‘ Contributions,” a rather important 
list is omitted, i.e., that given in Dr. Mavor’s General View of the 
Agriculture of js published in 1 1809, which really forms the an 
of the County Flora, consisting as it does of — 500 speci 
many of whieh are localised; it contains, however, many er rors. 

The various species given in Britten’s “ Contibutions” have 
now, with comparatively few olakons, been verified by me. The 
following, up till the present time, I have not been she to find. 
These may be divided into four categories :— 

Ist. Plants of casual occurrence, or which were not indigenous, 
but were probably correctly recorded :—Anemone apennina 
@ copse = ingford, Baaxter. — Peonia officinalis L. This, 
which, according to How, in the Phytologia Britannica, occurred in 
a close a "Banana Th long ago disappeared, — Isatis tinctoria 


828 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BERKSHIRE. 


Near Wantage, Dr. Trimen. — Silene nutans L. One plant in 
Wellington Grounds, Rev. C. W. Penny.—Silene Armeria L. 

Sonning. — S. conica L. One plant near Newbury, H. Boswell.— 
Linum angustifolium L. Farm at Crowthorn, Rev. C. W. Penny. 
This may belong to a higher grade of citizenship. — Geranium 


It may be a colonist; I have been unable to find any 
other record than. the above vague note.—Polemonium caruleum 
0 localities are on record; both of garden origin ? — Veronica 
spicata Lu, Three or four plants in a brickfield at Wellington 
College, Rev. C. W. Penny. — Chenopodium Botrys L. Bray, 1861. 
tga biflorus Curtis. Grange Farm. 


h 
in the Newbury list. — Lythrum Hyssopifolia L. Only recorded 
$ vicar there, and from near 
Win sor. — Tordylium maximum L. The record in the Botanist’s 
t 


L, About Reading. Is now a very rare plant in Central Britain. 

— Gnaphalium dicicum L. The records in the Newbury list are 

possibly erroneous, but it may yet be found on the north escarp- 

ment of the chalk. — Gentiana Pneumonanthe L. 1am afraid lost 

from Sulehampstead. It occurs in Surrey and Hants, just outside 
00 


1, A decreasing plant in all its Midland stations. — Tewcrium 
Scordium L. I have been unable to find it in the marshy meadows 
of Abingdon and Eynsham, which formerly yielded it. They are 
still damp enough. The Godstow locality was in Oxon. —- Orchis 
Simia Lam. Almost or quite extinct. — Damasonium Alism 


arx and Sunningwell Bog. Is there a more recent record ?— 

Lycopodium clavatum Li. Although not recently found, surely it 
will yet be discovered about Bagshot Heath. 

4th. Plants recorded in error, or of which there is only a slight 


NOTES ON THE FLORA Of BERKSHIRE, 829 


probability of being correct. Mr. gpa ere many 
records to the Newbury list, but they are so full of gross in- 
accuracies as to throw doubt on all his lca Ear ecords 
of Lathyrus palustris L., Illecebrum verticillatum L., Polycarpon tetra- 


albida Br., and Alliwn Scorodoprasum L. are all erroneous. The. 
list of plants pout epons Pangbourne by Mr. peau also contains 
several misn urtistt Forst. is a form of V. tri- 
color L. pati ates Fo gee! L. requires vercmepn om Pegs eH 
Forsterianum Sm. is probably a mistake for S. reflecum L.; hi 

Myosotis sylvatica is M. arvensis var. umbrosa; his Caeda ine im- 
atiens Li. is C. sylvatica.—Cephalanthera ensifolia is not. correct ; 


incisum is a variety of L. purpurewm; and there are doubts as to 
the correctness of Carduus tenuiflorus, Artemisia Absinthium, and 
Habenaria bifo 
Other ei which are errors are-——-Geranium sylvaticum in 
Bot. Guide for G. pratense L. —— Drosera anglica Huds. To this 
is referred Bobart’s record in Morison’s Hist. iii. 620; but Bobart 
not discriminate between D. anglica and D. intermedia ; both 


probable ; so far, it has eluded me.—Pyrus scandica, which Prof. 
Babington mentions from shoes va, but which Dr. Syme wa 
pvc * find, may be rediscovered.——Chrysosplenium alternifolium, 
a Berks plant on faith “of the Cliefden Wood locality, but 
Ehis Salas to Bucks.—Bagley Wood, given in my Flora of Oxon 
on faith of Rev. E. Fox, is an error for C. See mmr Sone 
virosa dt = Wellington list is an error, as is the record in my Flor 
of O y Rey. E. Fox.—-Rubia peregrina L. In the ae Fb 
aa ‘of A rast or Inkpen, Reeks. A very improbable record.— 
Hieracium murorum, from the downs above W. Woodhay and from 
walls at Elcot, by Mr. Reeks, is a probable misnomer for A. 
atum. — Scrophularia Ehrhartii Bier Near Cumnor. A mis- 
nomer ; the plant from there is 9. nodosa L. var. Bobartii Pryor.— 
Limosella aquatica L. The al locality is in Oxon. —- Orobanche 
cerulea Vill. Near Cookham, but the purple- flowered form of 
O. minor was mistaken for it,— Stachys germanica L. According to 
Bromfield, in Phyt, iii. 685, is plentiful in Berks, but never Moreaacy 
It is also recorded from Ducklington, but that parish is in Oxon, 
The plant should ee found on the north side of the coralline oolite 
plateau.—The station for Asarum ewropeum L., between Henley and 
Maidenhead, is hist likely in Bucks. —- Potamogeton heterophyllus 
Se i i 


I am inclined to think incorrect, as is Mr. Tufnail’s Burghfield 
record in Flora Oxf., which more Likely belongs to P. rufescens.~= 
P, heterophyllus is a plant which should occur. 


830 -  GOSSYPIUM LANCEEZFORME MIERS Ms. 


In Mavor’s list of plants, which, he says, ‘‘he owes in great 
measure to Dr. Noehden, of Windsor, and Mr. Bicheno, of New- 
bury,” he remarks of Dr. Noehden’s records, ‘that he has only to 
regret that the Doctor, having kept no aan i eacitlarpaiae oe 

made his excursions some yea 3 unable to 
the oan habitats of the plants he Ninaictbead “The district which 
he examined, however, includes the vicinity of Windsor, and 
extends on one side as far as Bagshot Heath, and on the other to 
Bisham Woods.” The following plants in the list I have not been 
able to verify :— Allium Schenoprasum L. sapere and pastures, 
Noehden, who also gives A. vineale L., which i s frequent; can the 
ormer be a var. of the latter ? — Callitriche autumnalis is of course 


C. hamulata. — Carex arenaria L. is an error. — C. cespitosa is C. 

0 i aris, C. distans, and O. stricta are most 
probably names rather than plants.—Drosera anglica and Geranium 
moschatum dia and Erodium cicutarium respe ly.— 
Lycopodium Selago eeke records fro on Ufton 

ommon, a locality more suited for L. inundatum —Medicago arabica 
Dr. Mavo b means rare ate the upper part of 
the county, partially se ho “Nat I have never met with 
it. Can he have meant M. lupuli ar —— Melampyrum arvense Li 


« Frequent.” Probably Bartsia Odontites, which he does not give. 
eristatum L. and M. 
Dianthus deltoides L. On old walls, Mr. Bicheno, is either a 
cas J 


misnomer or a —— Peucedanum officinale L. Dr. Noehden 
error.— Prunus Padus A misnomer for P. avium L.——Sa 
— error, — —— — is a — He 
erastium Be eerie —— Veronica hybrida is also a 
Ranunculus hirsu i 


nom 
us, from moist oh 1 
—_Tillea en ae Wiel i ayey p. es is déabilées an nus 


Any information upon the fore 
going, or upon any Berks records, 
Saban be greatly valued. They may be sent to Tis, High Street, 


tie citer 
GOSSYPIUM LANCEAFORME Miers MS. 


[Tux recent investigation by D 
has brought under oa notice eis Watt of the genus Gossypium 
ohn Miers 


pparently unpublished paper on 

ad genus by Mr. M contai Sasariotion, of a 
riage ha fod ae by Pavon. So e can discover, 

as never been described, but it was referred to in a 

view (by Dr Masters) of Parlatore’s Le Specie os sea published 

re i pene tae hide for July 28, 1866 (p. 710) :—** There is 
‘Gt ik fons Museum a cae of Pavon's had Mexico, whie 
species known to us in the eculiarl lon 

tails to the leaf-lobes and in the segments ef “the eels: hteh 


A NEW SPANISH CERASTIUM:. 881 


are exactly like the leaf-lobes in miniature.” The specimen came 
from Herb. Lambert, and is labelled in Pavon’s hand, ‘‘ Gossypium 
E.”—Enp. Journ. Bor 
‘Gossypium innceadoras nob.—Annuu ro ramosum ramu- 
lis subteneribus, obtuse 4-gonis glabris epunctatis; foliis p 
olu 


n 

inciso 38-lobatis, lobis lanceolatis apice longe attenuatis valde 
divaricatis, terminali lateralibus 2-plo longiore, integris, e basi 
8-5 nerviis, nervis eglandulosis, utrinque opacis et obsolete puber- 
ulis in nervis popes petiolo subpatente, hoe striato, sub- 
tomentoso limbo dimidio breviore; stipulis parvis, lineari- 
acutis, puberulis ; seidecllo 1-floro Sepouilitotio petiolo breviore, 
tereti cimereo-tomentoso; involucro subparvo 8-secto, lobissimo 
connatis, lanceolato- oblongis, eee integris, erectiusculis, 
parallele nervoso glabro; petalis uneato-rotundatis con = rtim 
imbricatis, patentissimis, gla rie lavidis, minute glanduloso- 
punctatis, infra medium a elongata ee desc atis tubo 
staminea petalis multo breviore, undique filamentis begelasiteih 
numerosissimie instructo, anihkie a feces cota ignotis 

‘‘In Mexico. v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. (Pavo 


A NEW SPANISH CERASTIUM. 
By A. E. Lomax. 


URING & rece nam expedition i in the Sierra de Guadarrama, last 

ne, I discovered a species of Cerastium which does not agree with 

a igh peloti in Willkomm & Lange’s Flora Hispanica ; it seems 

to me to be intermediate between Cerastiwm oe Boiss. and 
C. Rizi Desm., and I propose to name it C. carpetanum 

Cerastium carpetanum mihi. Annua, dense Daciviok: 

pubescens, viscosissima ; caule a basi divaricato- et dichotomo- 


3-6” 1.; foliis sessilibus, oblongo-ovatis vel oblongo- 
sagas eed cymis dichotomis laxi-interdum densifloris ; 
a cteis o herbaceis; pedicellis sub anthesin plus minus 


urvatis, pace uated rectis, r eflexis, fructiferis demum iteru 

arian: ; calycibus basi popsinbiinads: sepalis altero oblongo ovato 
vel Sap rapier eigen =stas scarioso, altero lanceolato, acuti- 
usculo, vix scarioso vel o o herbaceo, 23’” 1.; pe etalis calyci 
subeequantibus, a gh superantibus, breviter bifidis ; staminibus 
10; capsula calyce subdu ae longio aie 5-62’” 1., basi subinflata, 
apice curvata, attenuata; seminibus reniformis, dorso = naliculatis, 
agus Sues acute striato- peasant cg pelbie ferrugine 

In silva in summo jugo supra Puerto de iauaemada: montibus 
Cocca: Castella, Hispana. Junio 


ween C. Gayanum Boiss. and C , @i Desm. Differs from 
C. Gayanum in the shortly bifid Pict hn, leaves, and reniform 
acutely tubercled seeds; and from C. Hiei in the petals equalling 


é peta. 
or exceeding the calyx, and the b broadly scarious-margined, obtuse 
sepals. 


382 


PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA AND ITS EUROPEAN FORMS. 
By Arruur Bennert, F.L.S. 


Tus summer, Mr. Marquand was kind enough to send me 
some fresh specimens of Pyrola rotundifolia L. from Guernsey. The 
examination of these in the light of one observation made by Dr. 
Boswell (Syme) (Bot. Ex. Club Report for 1881, p. 58) on specimens 
sent by Mr. Sunderland from “The Grande Mare” as ‘? arenaria” 
—“arenaria I think, J. T. Boswell,”—led me to look up the refer- 
ences to the Lancashire, Scottish, and other plants that have passed 
under various names in our Floras. So far as I can find, no other 
botanist seems to have considered the Grande Mare plant other than 
rotundifolia, 

Th 


variety since 1846, as on the 12th November in that year 


attention to a paper by Planchon in the Annales des Sciences 
Naturelles (Ser. 8, xviii. 379), where Planchon identifies the plant 


name. But Nyman seemed to consider there were two plants 
under these names, as he hag «P, serotina Mleq. = y. arenaria”’ ; 
and gives “ P. maritima Kenyon (Angl., Belg.),” and localises the 

all, Batav. Ins. Nordern.” I have seen 


pplied to several Scottish botanists for specimens of 
, hear of none such, neither 

do any of the Botanical Guides Suggest such stations 
Another plant was sent to Sir W. J. Hooker (P. 


| hytologist, 1.¢.), 
“gathered on the Yorkshire coast, and since found pg. 


PYROLA ROTUNDIFOLIA AND ITS EUROPEAN FORMS, 888 


This is conflicting and sare gate We want to know 
whether these oe — e all the same thing; are they 
different from one another ? tes nie really distinct from rotundi- 


orld will be p 
vasa on in the height of the plank size of the leaves (6’” i 
diameter! to 36’ !), their shape at the base Cencpiieig = sondaia), 
and the size of the flowers. Of course specimens from the shores 
of the arctic seas he specimens from damp woods will show great 
differences ; ne of the flower in the former Sit ec 


s sariboe are not good material to deal with pane given 
jit dvsied examples of P. rotundifolia, media, and minor, they 


P 
lost in drying :—Style rosy-purplish, shading into purple just 
below the stigma; stigma deep purple. Anthers yellow to orange- 
yellow; filaments white. Sepals subparallel for half their length ; 

many they are fringed at the apex, or slightly jagged; others are 
subentire, yellowish white (contrasting in this with the much purer 
white of the petals), paler than as figured in Eng. an. Pedicels 

the ¢ 


the calyx-segme 
nearly entire pee subobtuse. The filaments, stamens, and styles 
are what is called ‘‘drusy” in min ence a.é., in wie crystal- 
like papilla, which extend to the i shar surface of the ls. 

Now this, so far as one can contrast it with dried 2a iat is 
pretty fairly intermediate between — and the var. arenaria, 
perhaps on the whole bearing towar e first. I have not seen a 
specimen —— by Dr. Alefeld, but, icaming to his drawing of his 
intermedia, it seems to me that it is not exactly this Guernsey 
plant; and he dott under rotundifolia that he has seen three from 
Guernsey. And I think I am right in saying there is only the one 
station known in Guernsey; anyhow, Mr. Marquand (Flora of 
Guernsey, 1891) gives no other. 

Yet it would appear that ae W. J. Hooker did see something in 


Hooker as ‘‘ P. rotundifolia var. squamosa Hook. M8.” hough 
I have looked through all the rotundifolia at Kew, I did not 
i these peystrge £ as I want to see similar ones in the 


Sresh state. I have seen or possess specimens of the arenaria from 
all the recorded stations, but here again I want to see fresh 
Lancashire specim 
I trust that ity y botknink who has the opportunity of gathering 
any of the British plants I have named will carefully examine 


834 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 
(and record) them fresh, and I should be very glad to see them 
myself, 


I have not yet been able to see a specimen of the P. serotina 
Mleq., but if that belongs to arenaria, we may put the following 
names more or less to these rotundifolia forms roa 

Pyrola rotundifolia Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. 1, vol. i. p. 896 (1758). 

B. arenari 


ch, Sy ‘ ‘ 
B. bracteata Hook. & Arnott, Brit. Fl. ed 6, p. 276 (1850). 
P. maritima Kenyon, Phyt. vol. ii. p. 727 (1846). 
- arenaria Dum. Boug. Lit. Belg. p. 41 (1869). 
Thelaia intermedia Aletfeld in Linnaa, vol. xxviii. p. 65 (1856). 


“P. rotundifolia var. squamosa Hook. MS. 

P. rotundifolia vax. albiflora Kael. & Kir. MS. 

P. intermedia Schleich. Catalog.” 

P. serotina élicocq, Pl. spont. Béthune in Caffin, Annuaires du 
Pas-de-Calais, p. 223 (1849); Puel. & Maile, Herd. loc. de France, 
No. 158, Feb. (1854), 

n a subsequent communication to the Botanical Society of 
France (Bull. Soc. Fr. i. 162 (1854), Baron Mélicocq records that 
i i tfolia 
th regard to th eight specimens in herb, Hooker, they are 
very extreme examples of the Southport plant, and have bracts on 


hi 
leaves; but almost every form between this and the Fren peci- 
mens is represented from neashire, although the characters 0 
the pedicels and sepals are better maintained, 
A somewhat similar variation occurs in P. minor, on the W. 
P. minor vax. arenaria Lantzius-Béninga, 
Beitr. Kennt. Fl, Ostfrieslands, p. 40 (1849). I understand that P. 


minor occurs in sand near the sea on the west coast of Scotland, but 
I have not seen specimens, 


a a eI 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZX, 
By Epmunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Concluded from p. 273.) 


** Folia suprema lobata. 
exicanum. 
137. A. rrionatum Hemsl. Diag. Pl. Noy, p. 24. 
Hab. Central Mexico, Parry & Palmer, No. 811 


+ + Austro-Americana, 
138. A, Murzirrr Frepenict Giircke et K, Schum. J. ¢. p, 428, 
Hab. Brazil. Prov. St. Catherina, Schenck, No, 497, 
139. A. senm K, Schum. J. ¢, p. 424, 
Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou, No. 12488 | 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 835 


140. A. Peprx Brancw K. Schum. l.c. p. 425. 

Hab. Brazil. Prov. Minas Geraes. 

141. A. execans St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p. 207. Sida elegans 
— Sie iv. p. 852. 8S. bella Steud. Nom. ii. p. 576. 
Brazil. 


a A. Sernowranum Regel in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, xii. p. 879. 
Sida Sellowiana Kl. in Otto & Dietr. = Gartenzeit. 1836 p. 9 

Hab. South Brazil, Glaziou, No. 1457. 

43. A. striatum Dicks. in Lindl. a Reg. 1839, Mise. p. 39. 
A, far a Rep. i. p. 824. Sida picta Gill. in Hook. & Arn 
Bot. u. p. 155. 8S. striata Dietr. Syn. iv. p. "852: Bot. Mag. 


Brazil. Organ Mts.!_ Uruguay, — &e. 

A, gf renee Hort. is ey =: is ras abov 

144, A, nrveum Gris. Pl. Loren 

Hab. a Republi came No. 175; Hieronymus & 
—~ No. 9 

145. A. Rotana Mig. in Linnea, xxii. p. 554. A. septem- 
lobum Mig. 1. 

Hab. Brasil, nots Minas Geraes. St. Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, 

re No. 188 

146. A. Das Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5917. A. Hildebrandtii 
Fenzl in hort. 

Brazil. Prov. St. Catherina ! 
Var. typica Regel in gg lage p. 817. 
Hab. Brazil. ee St. Cathe 
Var. trInervE Regel, J. ¢. xxiii. P: 180, t. 794. 
Hab. Brazil. eh St. Cather 
Var. expansum Regel, l. c. xxv. p. ‘81 7. 
Hab. Brazil. Proy. St. Catherina. 
% 7. A. venosum Walp. Ann. ii. p. 158; K. shes la lle. p. 431, 
6. Sida venosa she in Bot. Mag. t. 4468 
Hab. South Bra 
Var. 8. BREVI une K. Schum. J. ¢, p. 481. 
Hab. Brazil. Prov. St. Paulo. St. Catherina. 
Var. y. panatum K. Schum. J. c. p. 481. 
Hab. South Brazil, Mendonca, No. 1050. 
Sect. I, Corynasutmon K. Schum. J.c. p. 869. Stigmata decur- 

rente papillosa. 
* Folia parva. 

148. A. Bicotor Phil. in Anal. Univ. Ixxxii. p. 822.; K. Schum. 
lc. p. 

Hab. Chili ; ; nr. Santiago, Philippi! 

** Folia majora. 

149. A. ceratocarrum Gay, Fl. Chil. i. p. 881. Sida cerato- 
carpum Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. iil, p. 154. S. stelligera Poepp. 
Coll. Pl. Chil. iii, No. 172. 

Hab. Chili, Santiago ! Campana di Quillota! 


et. 
. 


886 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEX, 


Var. parvirtora K. Schum. 1. ¢ 
Hab. Venezuela; nr. Topo, Otto, No. 906. 
150. A. virme Philippi, l. c. p. 823 
Hab. Chili. Talcaregue, E. 0: Reed! ! Sta. ae E. C. Reed! 
151. A. virtrorrum Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. ; Lindl. in 
Bot. Reg. rat t. 57; Bot. Mag. t. 4227. Sida Len ‘Cav. ; DC, 
Prod. i. p. 4 
et Chili Proy. Valdivia! Chiloe! Conception! 
152. A. Ocusenn wes Cat. Pl. Vase. p. 27. Anoda Ochsenii 
Phil. in Linnea, xxviii. 
Paget Chili. Prov. Valdivia 
cissum oe in a. xxv. p. 218, is evidently 
wel és this plan 
153. A. Samer n.sp. Sida acerifolia Garcke in Pl. Lechler. 


No. 876. 

Hab. Chili. Prov. Valdivia! 

I have named this plant in ‘aie of Dr. A. Garcke, and nag 
to avoid confusion with Abutilon acerifolium Don, Gen. Syst. 
p. 504, which is synonymous with Sida acerifolia Lag. Nov. Gea 
p. 21. Dr. Garcke has pointed it out as being a distinct species on 
several occasions (see Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 1898, p. 491, &.). Its 


nearest ally is the preceding plant, A. Ochsenii Phil. I append a 
short descrip tion :— 


medio majore acuminato cordatis serratis ‘vel crenato-serratis 
utrinque pilosis petiolatis, alabastris ovatis externe pilosis, floribus 
axillaribus solitariis vel binis pedunculis fica alg bias 
oribus, sepalis ovatis vel triangularibus subac atis 
pilosis, petalis late ovatis (in sicco purpurei 8) salle: tanlts oe 
oribus, carpellis aga i calyce brevioribus dorso stellato pubes- 
centibus, seminibu rakes 
eaves 14-2 in. long and about the same broad; petioles 14-12 

in. long; peduncles rite in. long ; petals 2 in. lon 

The leaves of A. Ochsenii pai are rather eg and thicker than 
those just faa ibed, but the principal difference lies in the pubes- 
cence of the stem and calyx. The upper part of the stem, the 


Non satis nota. 
* Gerontogea,. 


154. A. NEELGHERRENSE Munro in Wicht Ill. p. 66. Sida neel- 
i Steud. Nom. ed. 2, p.578. © p. 6 ida ne 


India. Nilghiri Mts. -» Munro. 


155. A. veturinum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 
i ge iene n. Syst. i. p. 504, 


** Neogea, 
156. A. acertrorrum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 504. Sida acerifolia 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVE. ' £837 
Lag. Nov. Gen. p. 21. 8S. spinifew et forsan S. palmata F1, Mex. Ic. 
ined. ex DC es A t0t 


ab. Mexico. 
157. A. suanpum Fenzl, even Sem. Hort. Vinao: 1830. 
Hab. Mexico. Los Banos, Heller 
158. A. matacurorpss St. or & a in | Ann, Se, Nat. ser. -2, 
Vili. my 49, 
Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul. 
Prokabiy the same as A. Fluckigerianum K, Sabie: 
159. A. ANODOIDES St. Hil. & Naud. lc. 
Hab. Brazil; nr. Rio de Janeiro. 
Compare A. Neovidense K. Schum. 
160. oe HirsutuM K. Schum. l.c. p. 487. Sida hirsuta Vell. Fi. 
Flum, vi 
Tob. “Btosale Proy. Rio de Janeiro. 
161. A. tinzatum K. Schum. l.c. Sida lineata Vell. Fl. Flam, 
vii. t. 25. 
_ Hab. Brazil; nr. Paraty. 
162. -A, prLosum K. Schum. l.c. Sida pilosa Vell, Fi. . flum. 
vii. t. 
Hab. Brazil. Prov. Rio de Janeiro. 
163. A. cornurum Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 504. Sida cornuta 
Willd. Enum. p. 724. 
ae South America. 
. A. PULCHRUM ert Gen. Syst. i. p. 508. Sida gee 
Coll. Hort Rip. p. 129, t. 84 
Hab. Ins. St. Martha. 
165. A. execans Coll. Mem, Tor. Xxxv. p. 155. Sida Collei 
ae Syn. li, p. 853. S. elegans Coll. in Mem. di Torino, xxxv. 


155. 
Hab. Ins. St. Martha. | ae. 
166. A. TRUNCATUM —_ Gen. Syst. i. p. 508, 
- my oming 
167. A. crrcrinnatuM — Gen. Syst. i. p. 502. Sida circinnata 
Willd. ex ese Syst. iii. p. 119. 
Hab. South Ameri¢a; nr. Amazon. 


*** Petri Ign. 

168. A. mo otticomum Sweet, Hort. Brit. i. p. 54. pis mollicoma 
Willd. ; DC. Prod. i. p. 471. Ss. sericea, Cav. ex des 

have seen a plant in in Herb. Roemer with the above name from 

the Berlin Garden, which answers fairly well to the description. 

If this - res A, molliconum Sweet must be placed among the 

Triovul 
169. oe MICROSPERMUM gr a Syst. i. p. 501. Sida ae 
sperma Cay.; DC. Prod. i 


JOURNAL OF ee 81. [Nov. 1898,] Z 


888 SHORT NOTES, 


Addenda, 

170, A. arrenvatum Robins. & Sea. in Pl. Pringl. Distr. 1893. 

Hab, Mexico. State of Jalisco. Slopes of mountains near 
Lake Chapala, C. S. Pringle, No. 4854! 

171. A. Benensze = Sida Benensis N. L. Britton in Bull. Torr. 
Club, 1889, p. 158. ; 

Hab. | Rigs Junction of Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios, 
Rusby, 1455 | 

Since enumerating this plant among the Sidas, I have had an 
opportunity of seeing a specimen, and find it to be an Abutilon. 

172. i 


gesii, n.sp. erecto tereto patenti-piloso, 
foliis cordatis ovatis acuminatis grosse irregulariter serratis petio- 
pilosis junioribus fere velutinis, sti anguste 


pe vatis (in sicco al us, ; 
psn 6) biaristatis aristis scabridis 2-8 spermis, seminibus reni- 
Hab. Bolivia, Bridges! Herb. Mus. Brit. c 
Stem 1} ft. high, possibly more; leaves 2-23 in. long, 14-14 in. 
‘broad; petioles 1-13 in.; petals } in. long; awns of carpels 7, in. 
long, possibly lengthening when older. te oes 
e leaves of this plant are deeply serrated; the panicle is leafy, 
and not at all compound. It is closely related to A. Grevilleanum 
Walp.; the calyx of 4. Bridgesii is not, however, rufescently pilose. 


Ad hoc genus pertinentes extant species insequentes ad Side olim 
relegate, 

Sida abyssinica Diet. Syn. iv. p. 859. 

8. Guilleminiana Steud. Nom. 


S. integrifolia Monti, Mem. Acad. Lyon. 1860, p. 182, 
8. olygantha Dietr. Syn, iv. p. 854. 
S. patens Andr. Rep. p. 571. 


(To be continued.) 


SHORT NOTES. 


CiNaNTHE stiarror1a Bieb, (p. 286). — This autumn the growth 
of the above plant hag quite settled that the above name is the 
correct one. One of the difficulties 


AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 839 


is meant radical leaves. There is another point in the constitution 
of this plant, its extreme fragility; as it grows up in the spring, 
unless it can find something to support it, the first high wind lays 
it flat; not so with @. Lachenalii and pimpinelloides. And both 
the radical and the lowest spring leaves are very thin and delicate. 
ave dried as many of these autumnal leaves as my plant would 
afford, for the Exchange Club.—Arruur Bennett. 
Papaver Ruaas var. strigosum Boenn.—Mr. H. N. Dixon’s two 
interesting notes (Journ. Bot. 1892, 809; 1898, 810) upon the 
eeming inconstancy of this variety suggest a query which it might 
be worth trying to answer. Are these results obtained from seeds 


others of the same variety ? have always seen this variety 
b ; 


. I would 
should be fertilized with pollen of the same variety, and the seeds 
produced from these used for a further trial. The same course 
might also be taken to prove the constancy or otherwise of the var. 
Pryortt.—Ricnarp F, Townprow. 

Rusvs sreotasmis Pursh mw Kenr (p. 188), —I was pleased to 
see a note by Dr. Masters upon the abundance of this Rubus at 
and near Sandling Park, Hythe. In Journ. Bot. 1881, p. 251, will 
be found a note by myself suggesting the possibility of the plant 
having originally escape the well- h 


, it did not occur so abundantly as at the Sandling Woods 
below. It bears the local name of the “ Woodman’s Rose,”—J. 
Cosmo MELyitu. 


NOTICES OF BOOKS. 


American NoMENCLATURE AGAIN. 


n 

River, By Conway Macmrinan, State Botanist. Reports of 

the Survey, Botanical Series. I, Dec. 29, 1892, Minne- 
apolis. 8vo, pp. ix, 825. 

Tae Metasperme are ‘otherwise called Angiospermm,” and 

are on the whole better known under that name, The volume 


zZ2 


840 AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 


of Engler and Prantl: there are elaborate and careful statistics ; 
and the nomenclature is of — newest kind. It is to this last that 
I propose to devote a little ep 
< Mr. onway Macmillan i ia one oof the most active of the reformers 
of botanical nomenclature, who, like some ~~ reformers, find a 
culty in eons: with each other He was one of the first 


the enrichment of eng a by Taraxacum Taraa n, Ox: wycoccus 
Oxycoccus, and similar names. This plan he con oe « an excellent 
at it will scarcely fail of universal adoption, after a season o 
recalcitrant objection.”* Dis aliter viswn ; the ‘Botanical Club of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science” has 
decided otherwise; to such an eee Su even Mr. Macmillan, ag 
reluctantly, must needs bow; and Taraxacum Taraxacum wit 
humerous analogues passes into iat limbo which is largely vaopled 
by the ign deg creations of ics mg reformers. With these go 
a lar of galvanised corpses, such as ‘Stellularia Linn. 
(1748) = Staavia este te 58),” « Stellaria Ludw. (1787) = Stellaria 
‘Linn. (1758)”: for the 
of sanity in he mode of tue wih these questions, ree! 1758 


the book is adorned by many startling binomials, ae have been 
sag aga almost before they have “ee the light o 

Mr. an lays down in his cntrodactin ahaa Ws ore or 
‘Tews contradictory propositions. Prof. Greene} has dealt with some 
of a sry one spirit of the candid friend. He shows that Mr. 


@ many laxities”’; 
that his abbreviations of titles are very unsatisfactory; and that his 
Latin phrases have ye “constructed in cold indifference to case- 
endings.”” * Nomina are ve 

rightful names of species ; and ‘‘on the whole the errors in 
nomenclature, of various kinds, are 
not dare to take any thing for granted, as here printed, in the line 
of the bibliographical. ” The question esr arises how far the 
new sumpsimus is preferable to the old m 
. Lam quite prepared to accept Exot. aes s siciateciaill as 
accurate and well deserved, and b o doing to resist the temptation 
to notice = aera s fatrodneHon at length: but I propose to 
ex € In some detail his treatment of one or two names, in order 
that folk’ may an for themselves his qualifications for the post of 
reformer. And as the first n name which attracted my eye by its 
Samy appearance was Cypripedilum, I will take that as my text. 


‘It seems clear for apparent reasons that priority should govern 
in generic names.” Wi th thi i 


* Bull. Torrey Club, 1892, 15, t Erythea, 1893, p- 118, 


AmMBRICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 841 
acmillan begins his remarks on the “Citation of Pac re.’ 


en he says . 
to be thoroughly abreast of the times.” do not find “that Mr. 
Macmillan anywhere justifies the alteration, on grammatical or 
orthographical grounds, of generic names, while there is evidence 
to show that he carries his conservatism to extremes. Scoria, for 
example, a name ‘which an inadvertent printer gave,’’* is retained 
) 


amusement.’’+ But how is it possible to reconcile with his ‘rigid 
conscientiousness,”’ as Mr. Hollick aaa a ee use of Cypripedilum 
for Cypripedium? The name stands 
‘*CypriPepiLum Linn. Gen. 687 (1787) em. Pfitz. (1888).”’ 

Of course no such name is to be found in Linn. Gen., and, 
according to Mr. agers it dates from eres 8 ger] te 
to Engler & Prantl’s I ys Na vol. ii. pt. 6, p. 82. 
But it may be traced ae —- further ; it Abpense ‘a two previous 
papers by Pfitzer, dated 1887 gee 1886, d was originated by 
Ascherson (fl. Brandenburg, p. 64).t -[ Uropedium Lindl, 
is similarly altered by Pfitzer to fete iislan Fe d he defines a new 
genus, Paphiopedilum, which will have to stand, although the other 
two will of course revert to eaten and Uropedium. 

After this, will it be believed that Mr. Macmillan in his pave 
writes: ‘‘In the spelling of generic names the following are th 
ee? forms: Cypripedium,” &¢. No reason is given oly this 

change, and in this the author shows his wisdom: but what 
becomes of his principles? Is the choice of a name a motes of 
preference after all? If so, why has this coil bee Why 
should not each man claim the privilege, s sO aga exoroised by Mr. 
Macmillan, of doing that which is right in his eyes 

Coming now S the specific Rpts Bs hg six ahi Cypri- 

of 


or adding a 
second Saas after the first are iiss to sloth the naked 
falsehood of ‘‘Cypripedilum acaule Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 161 [he 
means 363] (1789),”’ and the like. I will let Mr. Macmillan define 
his position. ‘‘In order to obtain stability of nomenclature it is 
necessary to provide that the name of a plant, the epee name, 
can not be changed through caprice or Ae Pi: Mr. Macmillan 
knows as well as I do that ‘the name of a plant” ig not 


‘‘ the specific name,’’—the italics are his,—but the union of the 
genus and species: but let that pass. Having promulgated 
this statement ew cathedra, Mr. Macmillan proceeds to sho 


manifold causes of confusion in nomenclature: ‘The refusal to 


* Erythea, 1893, 121. 
+ Bull. Torrey Club, 1893, 178, 
e this rae from Pfitzer, Entwurf einer Nat. anordnung der 
Orchideen, 1887, p. 11: in the 1886 ed. of the Flora, ‘‘ Cypripedilum L.” appears 
on p, 120, without any indiontion that the name has been emended, 


842 AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 


correct mistakes”; ‘the disinclination to do thorough biblio- 
graphical work”; ‘inaccuracies’; ‘hastiness”; ‘unthinking 
and unbotanical criticism a general unwillingness to be 
reformed—these are the “little rifts within the lute” which have 
made the “music mute,” and produced discord where harmony 
should reign. In this book, however, ‘‘the specific name chosen 
is in every case, so far as the writer knows, the one sanctioned 
by priority regardless of variance with ‘custom’ or ‘authority.’” 
Mr. Macmillan shall be judged out of his own mouth: and we 
will first call as witness one of his species of Cypripedilum :— 
OYPRIPEDILUM SPECTABILE Sw. Act. Holm. (1800) ? 
C. calceolus var. g. Linn. Spec. 1846 (1762). 
C. hirsutum Mill. Dict. ed. 8 (1760). 


This is how Mr. Macmillan states the case. Of the five synonyms, 
one is manifestly later than that retained; another is a “ variety”: 
omitting these, we have three names, each of which, on his own 


ly does Mr. Macmillan cite Swartz as the authority for C. 
spectabile? If he had looked up the reference, he would have seen 
that Swartz not only says explicitly “C. spectabile Salisbury,” but 
also cites as a synonym ‘C. album Hort. Kew.” As I showed last 
month (p. 813), the name to be retained for the plant is C. Regine 
Walt.: Mr. Macmillan not only prefers-the more recent spectabile, 
but assigns it to a wrong author and date: he writes— 
‘‘Cypripedilum spectabile Sw. Act. Holm. (1800) ?” 
instead of 
‘Cypripedium spectabile Salisb. in Trans, Linn. Soc. i. 78 (1798)”’: 
the real name of the plant being 

Cypripedium Regine Walt. Fl. Carol. 222 (1788). 
The next species, C. pubescens, was established by Willdenow, 


Surely here was opportunity for the re-establishment of a name 

lle’s Prodromus to Mr. Jackson’s 
Index, has reduced to a synonym, but which, as Mr. Macmillan 
plainly shows, is “the one sanctioned by priority.” Levis is ‘the 
a sate paren gag ee ee a re 


* See Journ, Bot. 1898, p. 313. 


AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 848 


specific name, which can not be changed through caprice or whim’”’: 
why then does Mr. Macmillan reduce it, in favour of a later one? 
a x: 


is one of Prof. Greene’s —- a and with his usual 
promptness in enriching nomenclature, he at once ran out four 
species.* But Jacksonia has 8 mines aeiaad its coup de grace from 
Dr. Britton, with whom I am glad to find myself in accord. Here 
is what he says about it: wens 5 acksonia sere 4m Cleome dode- 
candra L. Now Cleome dodecandra L. Sp. Pl. 672, is a well-known 
Indian species. Rafinesque evidently Pilowed Michaux in sup- 
posing that it was North American, and Cleome dodecandra — 
Fl. Bor. A ii. 8 i i 


graveolens Raf. Amer. Journ. Sci. i. 879 (1819), and not at all. the 
plant of Linnzeus. In matters of athe we must be srt 
and so it seems to me that Jacksonia Raf. can only apply t o the 
Asiatic, Linnean, Cleome dodecandra. I do not find any oe to 
potas in subs sequent writings of PS Nate and presume that 
he discovered his error.’’+ But even Prof. Greene shrunk from 
slberiate Rafinesque’s Jacksonia to aus the Sdnoanst specific name: 
ia Mr. Macmillan employs it, — vs a “ ni — 

may be thankful that Dr. Britton’s exposur in time, a 
: believe it has done, to prevent the ‘iabedications! of : Pa se name for 

well-known Jacksonia of Brown—an invention indicated by 
Prof Kuntze—* Jacksonia R. Br. 1811 eventuell einen anderen 
Namen erhalten miisste.’’} 

am loth to it Mr. Macmillan with any of the ray 
which he so freely attributes to others; but I cannot see how 
can reconcile his action with the principles he has laid down. it 
would be easy to select other instances, but enough has been said 
to justify the rg rye that he is ill fitted for the post of reformer. 
t seems to me that we have a right to protest he ipevge the publi- 
cation of schemes os are withdrawn by their authors panko as 


suggest that the neo-American school of nomenclaturists should 
agree among te before they attempt to impose their views 


* Pittonia, i 
+ Bull. Tonia, Club, 1893, 277. From Ge thw P amy I cite an illustration 
of Dr. Kuntze’s method of working :— In his review of the 


— Be of Pursh, “Elliott, ro fer others, ublished in the 
Jou e, 1xxxix. 256—262 (1819), Rafinesque states that Chimaphila 
Pursh oh (1814) 4 ‘ Selsiaied by Pseva Raf. Med. Rep. 1809. This is alluded to by 


in any of them; nor have I met with the ve in any of Rafinesque’s writings. 
except . a place where he claims it as noted above. It would thus appear 
to date from 1819 only, and not to ditacees: vith Chimaphila.” 
; a Gen. 38, 


844° ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BRITISH MOSSES; 


on others. That they have not yet arrived at any common basis of 
action has been sufficiently shown above, and I have dealt with this 
more fully in a paper in Natural Science for October, 1892 (pp. 610- 
623)—a paper which I mention here because, not having received 
any separate copies for distribution, I was unable to call the atten- 
tion of botanists to it, and it has thus been overlooked by those who 
study nomenclature: notably by Dr. Kuntze, in the third part of 
his Revisio, of which a notice will soom appear in these pages. 


e 
results of the action of the younger American botanists will be the 
dition to our already overburdened synonymy of a vast number of 
absolutely useless names, many of them shown to be untenable by 
those who are responsible for their invention. 
- I had intended to notice two or three other matters connected 
with nomenclature, but these must be deferred for the present. 


JAMES BRITTEN. 


_ ‘Waar is the best book on Mosses?”” We have often had this 
question put to us, and as often have found it impossible to answer 
offhand. So much depends upon the requirements of the person 

Usually i of taki 


bryologist to increase the initial outlay, and buy some three or four 
books, the relative merits and demerits of which we then proceed to 
indicate to him. 


One of the books which we have most strenuously recommended: 


por anaed the Hylocomiums, Mniuwn undulatum, &c., which,” 


characters “as can be o served even in barren speci ae i 
cimens,’”’ made it 
possible for the student to speedil refer alm 3 itis 
its proper genus and spadian: 4 iepedecr pears: 
aving launched the Key, the enterprising author set to work 


2 
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BRITISH MOSSES. - BEB 


to improve upon it, ang nor has put efore the world the result of 


his labours——an Tilustr. d Guide to British Mosses, in which the 
Key has ‘‘been tho Fonts revised, and in great part rewritten” 
aust am mplifie in various ways. For instance, each genus has an 


introductory heading touching on the distinguishing characters of 
the British species, and conveying valuable hints as to how the 


The introduction forms a new feature. Chapters i.—vi. deal with 


‘¢ Practical Kxamination of Specimens,” mentio: hat apparatus 
is oe and the method of using it. But the ferentest improve- 
ment is the liberal employment of plates—59 in number, and 
ounthatie over 2400 figures, to illustrate all the species. In them 
we find a practical illustration of ro page s industry and castes 
going soncearerrye For he has only made his drawings direct 
from nature by means of the ee am fe but has himself litho- 
graphed tate to prevent their losing correctness in course of being 
transferred to the stone by some unbryological hand. He has very 
wisely adopted a uniform scale of magnification throughout: thus 
leaves are enlarged 15 times, leaf-apices 60 times, and leaf-cells 
180 times, ‘‘so that the figures show at a glance not merely — 
shape, but their comparative size.”’ “The nomenclature of Schim 
per’s Synopsis is used; and the ner wigi Ps British species Spears 
to be 576, which happens to be the number given in Hobkirk’s 
he 


Flora. On the other hand, some forms of Bryum, weaned. 
Ulota, Campylopus, &c., which stand as species in Hobkirk’s Synopsis 
are lowered to the position of varieties 


is not as good as could be desired. The small type of the mi is 
_ the lar, ype eric i 


is an 

‘th” some eight or nine times), we regard the book as entirely 

epigne et and cordially recommend os as a specimen of ingenious 
industrious workmanship, and as affording most serviceable 

an valuable aid to all who are tnlenestod in our British Moss-Flora. 


A. GEPpP, 


846 ICONES ORCHIDEARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANUM. 


Icones Orchidearum Austro-Africanum extra-tropicarum ; or, figures, 
with descriptions, of eatra-tropical South African Orchids. By 
Harry Bows, F.L.S Vol.i. Parti. London: W. Wesley 
& Son. Price £1 1s. 0d. 


greater boon on botanists throughout the world, as well as on 
those field-botanists, students, and lovers of nature in South 
ica to whom he trusts his book will be of service. Scattered 


had, but Mr. Bolus must have ready to hand, or could at any rate 
procure with comparative ease, the materials for this part of a 
much-needed “Flora.” There is a tradition which the younger 


Flora Capensis, of which, so the story runs, portions have been 
elaborated by various workers; but, alas! like other great works, it 
remains, and seems likely to remain, incomplete. 

The chief value of the present work consists in the fact that 
nearly all the drawings are from living specimens. One envies the 


orders stand more in need of such illustration than Orchids. It is 
always a tedious, often a highly unsatisfactory or almost hopeless, 
task to resurrect flowers so complex in detail from a soppy mess. 


: li 

This must be cheaper than a coloured plat i i - 

Set tents pe plate, and is, we think, other 
everal new species are described; two small Angrecums, a 

Habenaria, two each of Satyrium and Disa; “while that interesting 

little genus Pachites, which unites the characters of the two last, 


aie ; & somewhat remarkable 
coincidence, as Mr, Bolus points out, Burchell having originally 


: r, & 
extensive tour through South Africa, 


LES ORCHIDEES, MANUEL DE L’AMATEUR. 847 


Apropos of the plate of Pachites Bodkini (Tab. 26), we note that the 
indicating figures 3 and 4 have become t transposed, so that the 
is doecetbed as ‘‘one of the catals, ” and vice versd. This is the — 
— of -~ kind we have saiainedl in looking through the boo 
Brownleea, another genus of the Disa affinity, but differing in oa 
adhesion of the lateral petals to the odd iets and the rom of the 
insignificant lip, is enriched by the description of a new species and 
its variety, major. Disa itself — a larger proportion of Icones 
than any other genus, tabs. en 9 being devoted to it, while the 
subtribe Disee@ is very predominant. 
We can enlighten Mr. Bola: on one point. He says of Pogonia 
purpurata (t. 12), “the original description was based upon a plant 
in Sonder’s herbarium supposed to have been found in the Maga- 
aibetgei whence we may infer that it was most probably collected 
by Zeyher.” It has since been found by Mr. Culver, and though 
Mr. Bolus has not seen any authenticated specimen, he has little 
doubt of their identity, as Mr. Culver’s specimens agree very well 
with Reichenbach’s a —— — x4 oe Pogonia is known 
h 


feainn outh Africa. e in the B useum Herbarium a 
Pogonia collected by Zeyher (No. 1684), shsisloatg identical with 
that figured in the Icone A. B. Benvrz. 


Les Orchidées, manuel de Amateur. D. Bors. ae send & 
fils. 1893. 12 mo, pp. viii, 3238. Price 4 fran 
Messrs. Bamurére’s “‘ Bibliothéque des Pc utiles’ 
contains some useful handbooks, and the one now before us is an 
addition to their number. Orchids which for many years were to 
be found only in few collections, have become, in ee ty 
words, ‘les fleurs & la mode.”’ Orchid amateurs are now legi 
and it is on their behalf that M. Bois has inte ‘aicdtad bimael. 
His book is nto < two rests the first, Orchids 
botanical point of view, comprising 282 pages ; acid the iat 
Orchids from a hartiditural point of view, ptt thew! about a 
score; while at the end is a glossary of technical term 
a few short chapters the ome are a brief but clear, and 
for his purpose sufficiently full, ace of the systematic position, 
morphology, and geograp phical daeteibation of the family. Then 
follows a synoptic table for running down the genera, in which a 
number of rough explanatory woodcuts will no doubt be a help. 
After a list, defining the abbreviations of names of botanists and 


orchidophilists, with one lieutenant-colonel, come two pages of 
“principal works treating of Orchids,” in which we notice ater 
serious omissions. We look in vain for mention of Lindley’s 


works, which, though ay to be purchased with difficulty, gt 
generally accessible, and certainly valuable. Reichenbach’s Xenia 
Orchidacea is quot oted, but not the Otia Botanica ; and ‘‘ Manual of 
piacere sirtue (Veitch & Sons), London, 1887” is sist an 

urate citation of the excellent series of manuals for -ahdieh 
Mesiin: Veitch ai are paapiendibis: We fear M. Bois is not up to date 
in literature; has he not heard of the Orchid Review? and does he 


848 Dp. JoSEPH.GOTTLIEB KOLREUTER’S VORLAUFIGE NACHRICHT. 


er Vi. 
whole of the book. It is a list of the most ornamental orchids, 
with such descriptions of the genera and species, and other in- 
formation, as would interest or help those for whom the book is 


k h 
present, and fear that some purchasers will feel similarly dis- 
appointed. On the whole, however, M. Bois has produced a useful 
little book, which the publishers have sent out in a handy form. 

A. B. Renpusz. 


D. Joseph Gottlieb Kélreuter’s Vorliiufige Nachricht von einigen das 
Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen u. Beobachtungen, 
nebst Forsetzungen 1, 2, & 8. (1761-1766.) Herausg. v. 
W. Prerrer. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1893. 8vo, pp. 266. 
Price 4 Marks. 


Tuts neat little volume appears as No. 41 of a series entitled 
“ Die Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften,” edited by W. Ostwald, 
and published by Wilhelm Engelmann. Important and epoch-making 
works of men like Galileo, Kant, Helmholtz, Berzelius, Lavoisier, 


we can find only two others of botanical int 3 
‘‘ Chemical Investigations on Plant-life,” in es ete an gees 
have been a worthy recognition of its centenary to have reproduced 
Sprengel’s wonderful book, a work of more general interest and 
more easily to be comprehended than, for instance, a treatise on 
the symmetrical polyhedron, or investigations on the radicals of 
benzoic acid. 

Kolreuter was born in 1788, in the Swabian town of Sul 
years later he produced his first plant-hybrid 


an honour claimed by the authors of the Bio, } 
Saag graphical Index for 
Fairchild (1719) ; at any rate, Kolreuter’s work on hybridisation 


- ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. B49 


a from one parent rary he sisclioally repre that nse 


There hes however, no need to review Kolreuter’s work, for which, 
with its many points of interest, we would mee the student to the 


present handy edition. A. B. Rene. 


ARTICLES IN JO URNALS. 


Bower, ‘Structure of Axis of Lepidostrobus Brownit Schimp. 

2 plates). — R. J. Harvey Gibson, ‘ Siliceous deposit in Cortex of 
ee ed (1 plate). — M. T. Masters, ‘Synanthy in Bellis.’ — 
‘E.H. Acton, ‘ Changes in Reserve eee of Wheat on keeping.’ 
—P..Groom, ‘ Aleurone- layer of Seed of Grasses.’ — J. B. Farmer, 
‘Nuclear Division in Pollen-mother- isd of Liliwm Martagon,’. — 
0. ne ‘The genus Trematocarpus.’ — A. H. Church, ‘A Marin 


ye ie of Scottish - Hist. (Oct.). —A. Bennett, ‘Flora of 
East Sutherland.’—J. Roy, ‘ Scottish Deamidiee 
Bot. Centralblatt. (No " 89- 44), amen: Fg Heiden, ‘ Anatomische 
Charakteristik der Co Beart ol 
Bo sees: Gazette —_ 15). — C. G. - Bessey, ‘Evolution and 


‘Classification.’ Botany at the World’s 
Bulletin me U Herb. Boissier (No. 9). — “G. Schweinfurth & P. 
Ascherson, ‘ Primitie Flore Marmarice.’ — A. Rodrigue, ‘Sur la 


structure du tégument seminal des Polvcelacéa? — L. Radlkofer, 
Serjania aluligera, S. lateritia, S. yong jis Spp. nn.—A. Sertorius, 
‘Zur Kenntniss der Anatomie der Cornac 

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Sept.). — TA. “Willia ms, ‘ rere) of 
the Black Hills.’ — G. F. Atkinson, : “Symbiosis i in roots of Ophio- 
glossacee.’—L. H. Pammel, ‘ Crossing of Cucurbits.’ 

Erythea (Oct.). — J. B. Ellis & B. M. Everhart, ‘New W. 
American Fungi.’—E. L. ew sNeieadldture: 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (Sept. 30). — Casimiroa ae . 63).— 
Oct. 7). OC. T. Druery brs ating montana. ’—(Oct. 14). Gladiolus 
platyphyllus Baker, nis 


850 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


Trish Naturalist (Oct.).— G. Pim & R. J. M’Weeney, ‘ Fungi of 
Dublin District.’ 
Journal de Botanique (Sept. 1, 16). — P. Hariot, ‘Les Algues 
d’eau douce d’Islande.* — A. Franchet, ‘Sur quelques nouveaux 
trophanthus.’ — L. Mangin, ‘Sur les composés pectiques.’ — 
Patouillard, ‘ Quelques Champignons du Thibet.’ 
idland Naturalist (Oct.).— J. E. Bagnall, ‘ Flora of Warwick- 
shire.’—W. B. Grove, ‘ Fungi of Abbot’s ‘ Flora Bedfordiensis.’ ’ 
Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Oct.). — A. Nestler, ‘ Die Perldriisen 
von Artanthe cordifolia.’ —L. Celakovsky, ‘Morphologische und 
biologische Mittheilungen.’ — L. Linsbauer, ‘Ueber die Neben- 
blatter von Huonymus. —R. H. Franzé, ‘ Ueber einige niedere 
enformen.’—J. Schuler, ‘ Zur Flechtenflora der naheren Umge- 
bung Triests..—J. Murr, ‘ Ueber Hieracium pulchrum,’ 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ¢e. 
Tue following American “appreciation” of the 
J. G. Baker (see p. 248) will be read with interest; it is from 
Meehan’s Monthly for September :—« He ig represented with some 
Onoclea-like fern on the table before him, about which he is 
penning notes. The pleasure it gives to see for the first time the 
facial outlines of one so much beloved is mingled with regret that 


in improved furniture to add ten or 
fifteen years to the life of such a useful man as J. G. Baker.” 


Dr. Tueopore Cooke has been appoj ted Seienti : f 
the Imperial Institute. Dr. Cook ppointed Scientific Director o 


India, and has been engaged for some time upon a Flora of Bombay. 


Tae nineteenth part of the Flora of British India brings the 
enumeration some way Into Cyperacee, on which order Mr. C. B. 


progress which this important Flora 
however, there must be considerable 


‘Flora of British India ig making rapid ag ion i 
within reasonable distance, ee ee 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 851 


ot Dee os number of the Icones Plantarum bears further testi- 
mony to Sir Joseph Hooker’s assiduity, making, as it does, the 
caste of the eight parts devoted to Indian Orchidaceae, the letter- 
press of which is entirely from his pen. An incidental note in the 
present instalment gives some notion of the labour which this has 
involved, and at the same time conveys a graceful ae to the 
artist. ‘The analyses of the orchids figured in these Icones, an 
those described in the pages of the Flora of British India, have been 
a work of great labour, executed _ by — at various periods 
between 1882 and 1892; and those of the Icones have been more 
ieee f and quite hae aacaty, revised by my asnoriolleued 
t, Miss Smith, who has portrayed the results of our analyses, 
bgt with the drawings of the plants themselves 

Tas recognition of the help rendered is fully in aceoed with the 
best traditions, and contrasts somewhat strangely with the action 
taken in other quarters. We noted at p. 95 the omission of the 

author’s name from the last edition of the Guide to Miss North’s 
paintings at Kew, and we see that no one is responsible for the 
‘Flora of St. Vincent” which occupies the last number (September) 

of the Kew Bulletin. Internal evidence points to Mr. R. * ee a 
as the compiler, but it is to be regretted that his name 
mentioned, if only for convenience of citation. The Bulletin ‘teclf 
has never appeared under any editor’s name; and although we 
believe it to be ap Hi that Mr. D. Morris edits the ‘‘miscel- 

neous information” it a this is nowhere stated. 

Tue enumeration of the St. Vincent plants is — by ~e 
Pace note on the cd, and followed by a summary fro 
ey it appears that the total number of flowering Slants salioetel 

t. Vincent and the four yg ne a, Cannonan, 
a. and Union,—including naturalised plants and those 
inserted on the authority of the early collectors, is aoa 1150. 
The following species are endem 


Trigynea antillana Rolfe. dc teieonia tubiflora Griseb. 
Spachea perforata Juss. Malouetia retrofleca Muell. Arg. 
Meliosma Herberti Rolfe. Columnea speciosa Presl. 
Calliandra Guildingii Benth. Peperomia cuneata Miq. 
Psidium Guildingianum Griseb. P. Vincentiana Miq. 

Gustavia antiliain Miers. Croton Guildingii Griesb. 
Tibouchina cistoides Griseb. Epidendrum Vincentianum Lindl 
Begonia rotundifolia Lam. Tillandsia megastachya Baker. 


The Trigynea and Meliosma are here first described. 


an) account of Colonel Robert Kyd, the founder of the Calcutta 
nic Gardens, is published in the fourth volume of its Annals. 
He i is described as ‘‘a keen gardener,” but it does not appear that 
he had any knowledge of plants botanically, siete the foundation 
of so important a garden as that at Calcutta ae him a claim to 
the esteem and respect of botanists. Some scanty ig iy apc 
regarding him is given in the Biographical List, to which Dr. King’ 
memoir enables us to add that he was of an old Forfarshire family, 
and was born in 1746. A portrait, copied from a coloured crayon 


B52 '  BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO, 


in possession of the Agricultural Society of India, is prefixed to the 
' notice. 


Tue second part of the Index Kewensis has been passed for press, 
and may be expected very shortly. -This concludes the first of the 
4wo volumes, and brings the enumération down to the end of J 
(Justicia). So far the work occupies 1268 pages. The following 
errors in our review of the first part should be corrected :—p. 811, 
"1, 22 from top, for “Pritzel,” read “Steudel”; p. 818, 1. 8 from 


top, for ‘1760,” read “1768”: 316, 1. 14 from bottom, for - 
 Warminoia.” 


armingia,” read “Warmingii””: | 14, for 1827,” read “1887.” 

Tue aération of the seeds of Leguminose, of which Prof. Borzt 
writes in Malpighia (vii. 1898, pp. 8-14), formed the subject of two 
papers (with illustrations) by Prof. A. H. Church, published in this 
Journal for 1864, pp. 120-122; 1865, p. 324. 

Tue Stationery Office has published Mr. Scott Elliot’s Report 
on the Botany of Sierra Leone—a result of the expedition in which 
he took part in 1891-2. The economic side of the subject is alone 
dealt with, as the botanical results will shortly be published by 
the ean Society, and will no doubt contain full information 

i i Report. 


e de nition of certain nude names for which he is understood to 
be responsible, and which appear in the Kew Gardens Report for 
1880 and elsewhere. In this Report it was stated (see Journ. Bot. 
1882, 289) that Dr. Dyer proposed to ‘communicate descriptions 
of the new species to the Linnean Society,” but this has not yet 
been done, and it is gratifying to learn that the work is in progress. 
_ Tae Department of Botany of the British Museum has acquired 
the great collection of Diatomacee made by Mr. Julien Deby, which 
was long without a rival, except in the extensive and valuable 
Series already in the slate Mr. Deby’s collection consists of a 
ve erles, arranged systematically ; i ‘s d 
slides’”’; the collections of Bie Dmkis, Get ox 
Miller, Tempere and Peragallo ; a fine series of Walker Arnott’s; 


collections, and their accessibility to students, form matter for con- 
pm to the large class of diatomists in this country. 

£ are glad to learn that the unpublished material, includin 
many drawings, which the late Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald had Saint 


lated for his Australian Orchids is to be i i F 
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NOTES ON PONDWEEDS. 
By Aurrep Fryer. 
(Puates 837 & 838.) 

A New Hysrm Poramoceton. 


oTaMOGETON Brntupsn mihi = cortaAcEUS X PLANTAGINEUS.— 
Rootstock inane creeping, fibrous. Stem terete, slender, ascending, 
slightly branched at the base. Lower leaves narrowly lanceolate, 
sessile, naerowed towards the base. Upper leaves elliptical, sessile 
or oc ribbed, with fainter intermediate ribs; midrib wit 


stipule. F'lower-spike very short, less than + in., cylindrical, 
arren. Colour of the whole plant brownish or olive-green. 

x P. Billupsii is a most variable plan pes so widely in 
different stages and conditions of growth from the normal state 
above described, that I could not venture to capunae it until I had 
carefully watched it under cultivation for two seasons. ome 
specimens are not easily separable from P. plantagineus, others 
Bakes resemble local forms of P. Zizi, and others might pass as 

witans form belonging to my P. crassifolius. These may be 
visser the Shc — of Baad apevies, but another series of 
forms closely res ramineus V. raminifoli ius, P. varians, 


evidence of the correctness of my supposition. After having 
observed the growth of these Benwick Zizii-forms for some years, 
I was able to see at a glance that the form now described would 
afford the solution of the origin of the peculiar plant which BLN 
at Benwick. Although I selected specimens for cultivation with 
great care, at first I was afraid that I had mixed “toma of P. 
plantagineus and P. Zizii with the true hybrid form, P. Billupsii. 


n. 
on the wild plant, and this also was infertile, thus confirming the 
epee oT by the growth and foliage of the hybrid origin 
of the spec 

rate harags or Borany,—Vot. 81. [Dxo, 1893.] 2a 


854 NOTES ON PONDWEEDS, 


Continued cultivation of the plant through the past summer in 
still deeper water brought out the normal character of the species, 
which is figured in Pl. 887, fig. 2. is state would be named 


P. varians, or of P. heterophyllus y. major (Ar. Bennett, Lond. 
Catalogue, ed. 8). 
mong specimens collected at Sutton Meadlands, Cambridge- 
shire, in September, 1892, I found a Potamogeton which was 
growing wit. - varians, and which I referred at the time to 
that species, but which I now have little doubt is really of the 
same hybrid origin as P. Billupsii, i.e., P. coriaceus x P. planta- 


meus. 

The chief interest this new form will have for botanists is its 
bearing on the question of what many of the fenland forms of 
“P. Zizit” really are. ; tt visi 
Sutton Meadlands with me, he suggested the possible crossing of 
P. plantagineus wi me o ir 
attention to the matter; although at that time we were neither of 
us prepared to admit that any of the plants we then examined were 
really hybrids. 

Here I may say that I have not used the corrected nomen- 
clature of the species of Potam 


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considerably from the “ Zizii” of these notes; which I have so 
nts 


th ephew, Mr. C. K. Billups, whose name I have attached to 
€ species described in this paper, assisted me greatly in the field- 
ry ; : 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, 855 


_ Desoxrprion or Piates.—The two very successful Copel by Mr. Morgan 
which illustrate this paper were made from dried s ecimens; and the artist 


a 
aay copied the material placed before him. In plates of such small size, 
only the — state of the species eine be ‘itnate sted the larger autumnal 
shoots and the outer autumnal stolons have been omi ed for want 0 space, 

L : : 


i and 
een able to observe). bd F fer Submer, ed stem, with Fizit-| e lower — 


in 

e accuracy of Mr. organ’s drawings gives a better idea of the specific 

characters of the species than any rie rss n could do, and shows exactly the 

resemblances and differences of this remarkable Pondweed to and from its 
parents, 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, 
IIT.—* Frora Corcrrese.”’ 

Unoer this title, a catalogue of Corfu plants was published - 
the Ionian Antholo Hey magazine of general literature which w. 
published in Corfu in 1884-5. Five parts only appeared, the first 
four of which formed a volume of 961 pp. Mhe contents are 
extremely miscellaneous, and are written in Greek, Italian, and 
English—a Greek tran alison being given of most of the papers in 
the other Ae languages. 


pp. 180-227 of the remainin part. It is arranged on the Linnean 


The We ak has been Vain ns cited by rag ae authors, often as 
nonymous production: in DC. vill. 284, it is styled 
- Tonic, sathol.: ir outage on ye 293 if ye same volume it is cited 


7 oy core.”; in vol. x. of the nitesgitcem it is called ‘Ion. anth.” 
and ‘Fl, coreyr. in anth. oh 3 52). Pritzel ord 
io 10786) treats it as anonymous, ge other writers, notably 


Sa D. Jackson, in the Index Kewensis, attribute it to Pieri: 


mG kchigl bulbosa [Pieri] in Ionios Anthol. v. 182.”* 
In cataloguing the library of the Botanical Department, it becam 
desirable, if possible, to ascertain whether this sieibation net 


e that some authors cite the work by its volume, others (like Mr. 
ection): or its parts, 2423 


856 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, 


correct. This is evidently not the case, and it may be well to put 
the facts on record. 

n prima facie grounds, it was by no means unreasonable to 
suppose that Michele Trivoli Pieri was the author. e had pre- 
viously published two works on Corfu plants: ‘Della Corcirese 
Flora, centurie prima, seconda, e terza, ossia storia di piante 


folio publication—in 1814, a ‘Flora Corcirensis 
centuriz prima et secunda sive enumeratio ducentarum plantarum 
quas in insula Corcire inveni 1, Fieri,” % i’s name 


does not appear in the list of authorities given in the Flora Corcirese, 

and this, coupled with his previous writings on the subject, has no 

doubt produced the impression that he was the author of this third 
ac ; : 


Pieri,” &e. (Ion. Anthol. i. 958). (2) The subsequent remarks of 
the author :— “Tl Symphytum officinale riferito dal Pieri . . . non 
esiste nell’ isola per quanto consta all’ autore, che lo ha inutilmente 
ricercato su tutta la sua superficie” (J. c. ii. 186); and ‘“I’autore 
ne ha trovato un solo esemplare il di 26 Aprile, 1884... . . a 
riprodotto fiori simili al tipo in quest’ anno 1835” (l. c. 190), Pieri’s 
death having been already referred to (see above) in 1884. (3) The 
reference by H. Margot and F. G. Reuter in their “Essai d’une 
Flore de Vile de Zante” (Mém. Soc. Phys. Geneve, viii. 251 (1839) ):— 

Cette flore est anonyme, et n’a pas été achevée, vu que l’Antho- 


logie a cessé de paraitre”: these authors cite it throughout as 
“Fl. anon.” 


what surprised to find included in Mr. Jackson’s Index such names 
5 deed pubescens and B. leptostachys, which stand thus in the 


“3B, Leptostachys. E una varictd del precedente [sqguarrosus] , 
se 


con cui nasce. 
B. pubescens. Altra varietd dello stesso a Spighe pelose.”” 
Aphanes: monogyna, also included by Mr. Jackson, is defined as 
Varieta della precedento [arvensis] con un solo pistillo”: and it is 
i @ P gg ci the “N.” or “Nob.’’ which the author says he has 
xed to his new species is absent from the names of these varieties. 


THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 857 


The new species are as follow :— 
Scabiosa A: Nob. Ion. Anthol. i. 698. 


olitaria Nob. ey 3 re 
Galium nehyiiaas Nob. a - 940. 
flee torium Nob. go igh 942. 
Rubia ns Nob. 7 e 944, 
Plantagd: all Nob. a os 950. 
Potamogeton setaceum Nob. ,, “ 956. 
Myosotis echinosperma Nob. ,, ms 960. 
Anchusa bulbosa Nob. Ff iy ibe 20a 

dami ye 99 
Convolvulus os Nob. ,, 7 192. 
Campanula pruinosa Nob. ,, 5 204. 

muscosa Nob. ,, 
Some of these have bk aesbiak to well- ibe species, others 
remain unidentified, but with this I am not concern 


esides these, there j is anew genus established -Raddia—(I. ty 
448) which is not to be found in Pfeiffer, Durand, Bentham & Hooker, 
or in such other authors as I have consulted. It comes next to 
Anthoxanthum, and is named ‘ Raddia aculeata. Nob. _Anthosanthum 
aculeatum. Nob.” This latter name is reduced by ackson 
Crypsis aculeata, of which the anonymous author says, tat nspetto,” 
He w rites :-—* Questo nuovo genere cosi nominato ae Farhi in 
memoria del suo diletto amico e concittadino Guiseppe celebre 
Muscologo.” Possibly a biography of Raddi might ‘hes some light 
upon the writer of the Flora Corcirese, but of him, as of Pieri, I can 


James Britten. 


THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 
By Aurrep B. Renpzz, M.A., F.L.S. 


Andropogon Afzelianus Rendle, sp. n. Culmo tereti, oa 
flee: vaginis anise yan: ligula breviter truncata, glabra 
laminis quam yvaginis 3-4-plo longioribus, linearibus, sensim an- 
gustatis, suberectis, pubescentibus, planis, costa media notatis; 
panicula foliosa, angusta, laxa, ramis solitariis tenaas, ramulis 
2-3-nis, filiformibus; racemis pedicellatis apice 
solitariis, spathas lanceolatas equantibus, te “sessilibus binis, 
%, anguste lanceolatis, internodo vix bilineo separa is ; a 

7-nervia, sub apice sparse pubescente, callo pilis longis induto; 
Ii’ parum longiore, supra carinata, sub apice angustata et in 
aristam tenuem subito elongata; ILl'* 0; IV* ‘sepia hyalina, 
ab apice profunde bifida aristam robusiam infra m um genicu- 
latam emittente ; palea hyalina ; spiculis ora a lanceolatis, 
gl. I™ acuta, 7-nervia, 11% simili sed 3-ne 

A somewhat robust plant with a stem a afoot long. The 


858 THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 


covered with long soft hairs, the blades are pubescent, flat, with 
margins recurved and apex tapering into a short awn, 7-8 in. long, 
14-2 lines broad, with a conspicuous whitish midrib, and numerous 
inconspicuous veins. The narrow lax panicle is 10 in. long. 


longer, rounded below, keeled above, with a thin apical awn 4 in. 
1 


racter of the fourth, run it down to the section Pseudanthistiria, 
with two species, Andropogon umbellatus Hack., from Ceylon, and 
India, China, an perhaps native in 


Collected in 17 92-4 by Afzelius in Sierra Leone, and designated 
Andropogon 2; also in the Sierra Leone Boundary Commission, by 
G.. FP, Hog be ES a No. 4108, on roadside near Regent, Sierra 


WFO; Vaginis ad basin culmi lanatis, culmi 
1ce minute pubescentibus, ore pilosis ; ligula breve, 
tr neata ; laminis Innovationum linearibus, supra angustatis, culmi 
brevioribus, magis angustatis, illis et haram infimis molliter lanatis, 
ceteris subglabris, costa media conspicua; i 
solitariis—3-nis, tenuibus, pedunculo vix filiforme, spatha lanceolata 
rufescente vaginato, terminatis ; pedunculo spatham sepissime ex- 
ced te, Superne patenti-villoso, villis fulvis basi tuberculatis ; 
racemis binis, altero breviter pedicellato, altero sessile, densiuseulis, 
6-7-articulatis; spiculis unifloris, racemi sessilis pari im Sa 


yassee Rendle, sp.n. Perennis, culmo erecto, 
: : , 


sess. ¥, brunneis, gl. Im oblanceolata, supra bicarinata, apice inter 
oe truncata, indistincte 6-nervia, callo brevi; I14 obtusa, supra 
tata cum arista vix pollicari 


THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 359 


infra medium geniculata, columna hirtula; spic. pedic., gl. I™* dense 
fulve-villosa, IL rufescente, convoluta, lance olata. 
rennial grass, With apparently a thin creeping rhizome. 


by stiff eerie sheaths. These lower leaves have a soft woolly 
covering, where as on the culm the blades are almost glabrous and 
the sheaths ehtivaly so, except for a minute pubescence below the 
pilose orifice. The culm is 11-12 in. long; the leaf-blades at its 
base and those of the innovations from the older sheaths are linear, 
gon gradually to a sharp tip, and 8-6 in. long by }-1 line broad ; 
as ascend the culm they get shorter and more tapering ; they 
are ‘flat, or : piusetiend se towards the upper surface; the whitish 
midrib is conspicuous; there are also several lateral nerves. 
i he ver 


ong, its few slender branches are 6-8 in., and terminate 

in a bolitaey peduncle which generally protrudes, sometimes an inch 
or more, from the reddish narrowly lanceolate spathe whose length 
varies from 13-21 in. The peduncle is covered for about 4 in. 
at its apex with long soft spreading fulvous hairs springing from 
tubercles. The spikelets, especially the male, the pedicels, and 
joints of the rachis also bear short thick fulvous hairs. The stalke 
spikelets are unawned; the aesbdile have a flexuous obtusely genicu- 
late awn 10-11 lines lon 

Buchanan, N yassaland, 1891, No, 1428 

This species belongs to the hirtus group, and comes nearest to 

Abyssinian A. fulvicomus Hochstett. ; it is, however, a smaller 
and less robust plant, differing in wes shorter, much narrower and 


pubescent leaves, with a lig line long, the latter being 
1} lines in the Abyssinia leo in its very lax simple panicle 
with but few nches, and its slightly larger reddish male spike- 
lets. Hackel, in hi aph of Andropogonea, reduce 
A, fulvicomus to a va of A. rufus Kth., but Buchanan’s plant 
is distinguished from the latter not only by the long tubercular 


on the racemes and spikelets, characters which it 
fulvicomus, but in addition by the very distinct leaf- atuasacters, the 
short narrow linear blades, and their woolly covering. 

sp.n. Planta 1-2- pedalis, 


mox rami re a ramis paucis, longis, culmo similibus ; 
glabris, ore _pilosi li ula membranacea, glabra, semicirculari ; 
nute p 


inferiore 3, aperiies "s: rhacheos articulis triangularibus, angulis 
albo-villosis; pedicellis dorso rotundatis gla ris, angulis 1 
albo- villosis ; spic. sess. ba Im= chartacea, ovata, breviter bifida 
8-nervia, dorso plana, supra medium bicarinata et pilosa, infra 
glabra, callo truncato; II‘ supra carinata, apice acuta, 5-nervia; 


860 " ‘THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 


IIl* membranaceo-chartacea, margine hyalina, acuta, sub apice 
carinata, 3-nervia, paleam-hyalinam et florem 3 triandrum fovente ; 


glabram exserente; palea glumam equante, hyalina, acuta; ovario 
; spic. ped i 


inat 
erect grass 1-2 ft. high, with a few slender straggling 
long, at t 


eel above, which runs out into a shar The fourth is 
1} line long, hyaline, with 2 Subacute segments, and a ciliate 
margin, with a flexuous awn 4-5 lines long. The s glabrous, 


sessile. The stamens in the 3 fi 
ae oe pags ee find them in one spikelet, though I ex- 
rer eee € intlorescence ; the glabrous ovary had evidently 
ott Elliot, Sierra Leone Boundary Commission, No. 4927. 
On granite rock by waterside, Ninia, Talla, Feb. 1892. 
A distinct species of the subgenus Huischeamum (Hackel). 


361 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA: AND SPECIES OF Hay ee 
By Epmuunp G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
(Coneluded from p. 338.) 

ABUTILON. 

Species exclusa. 
ambiguum Turez. = Sida Lindeniana T 
Chapeliert Baill. = Wissadula Chapelieri Bak. fil. 
contractum Sweet = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
erinitum Klotz. = = Wissadula hirsuta Presl. 


k. 
ss aetiined H.B.K. = Wissadula ferruginea Garcke et Schum. 
fetidum Moench. = Bastardia viscosa 
gymnanthemum Gris. = Wissadula gymnanthemum K. Schum. 
hernandioides Sweet = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
laxiflorum Guill. & Pen. = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
lepidum F. y. Muell. = Sida lepida F. vy. Muell. 
Lechenaultianum Sweet = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
leucanthemum St. Hil. = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
Lucianum Sweet = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
marmoratum Hort. = Hibiscus s 
mucronulatum A. Gray = Wissadula mucronulata oe ied 
Newberryi 8. Wats. = Horsfordia Newberr tie 
nudiflorum Sweet = Wissadula nudiflora G 


parviflorum St. Hil. = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
polyandrum Don = Wissadula a Sp. 

polyantha Sweet = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
periplocifolium Sweet = Wissadula zeylanica Med. 
pulchellum Sweet = Plagianthus pulchellus A. Gray. 
pulchrum Don = Plagianthus pulchellus A. Gray. 
rigidum Don S Sida rigida hot = Sida rhombifolia L. 
rufescens Turez. = Wissadula 

spicatum H. B. *K. = Watt spicata Presl. 
sundaicum Don = Wissadula 

verbascoides Turez. = Wissadula rostrata Pl. 
wissadifolium Gris. = Wissadula simausanies K. Schum. 


XXIII. SPHARALCEA St. Hil. Pl. Usuel. t. 52. Bracteole 
3 libere vel basi coalite. Styli rami filiformes vel clavati. Carpella 
1-3-sperma intus nuda quum 1-sperma superne vacua. 

§ 1 EUDO-MALvAstTRUM. Bracteol# lineares vel — 
Carpella 1-2. ovulata. Ovula superior etiamsi exsistit rare 
turescit, 

+ Boreali-Americane vel Mexicane. 
* Flores We vel albi rarissime rosel. 

1, §. axttuaris §. Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. p. 41. 

Hab. Lower Californig, Mulege. 


362 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


2. 8. sutpHurea S. Wats. l.c. xi. p. 125. 

Hab. Lower Californian ait 

3. n Contr. Nat. Herb. i. p. 28. Caulibus 
erectis vel elescuilen Gite canescente bituaoeia, foliis ovatis vel 


bati i iore 
vel subequante veniis subtus prominentibus floribus subpanicu- 
latis, bracteolis linearibus, calyce brevioribus, sepalis ovatis acutis 
striatis canescentibus, petalis obovatis (in sicco flavo-albis), carpellis 
ignotis. 
ened. Guadelupe Is., Dr. E. Palmer, Nos. 867! 868 

Stem or branches 6 in. to 1 ft. long, possibly wich petals 
about 4 in. long. 

The flowers of this plant are subpaniculate, and apparently 
wa The leaves are rather thick, and with a decidedly 
cuneate bas 

4. §. anerrtora Rose l.c. p. 81. Caule erecto canescente fur- 
furaceo, hitte lanceolatis vel ovato-lanceolatis margine seepe crispis 


ongi0 aos 

sparse aggregatis, bracteolis linearibus Piney multo brevioribus, 
sepalis triangularibus acutis in media m striatis, petalis (in sicco 
flavo-albis) calyce duplo foigiaitba, carpellis junioribus externe 
albo-stellato-pubescentibus 

Hab. Lower Califa Santa Rosalia, Dr. Palmer, No. 205! 

Stem 10 in. to 2 ft., possibly more; leaves about 1 in. long by 

i fot petals 4 in. long. 

‘The leaves of this plant are covered with a ey pubes 
It is — to the preceding species, and to Spheralcea piel 
A. Gra 


** 8 coccinei croceo-coccinei aurantei vel rosei rare albi. 

5. 8. Counrerr Asa Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. p. 291. 8S. 
Fendleri, Partly, Torr. Mex. ne oe p. 29. Malvastrum Coulteri 
S. Wat roc. Am. Acad. x 

W. Arizona. Meio, Pata No. 171! 

S. pepartripa A. Gray, lc. Malvastrum pedatifidum A. Gray, 
Pi. Lind Ri p. 160. Sidaicea Atacosa Buckley in Proe. Acad. Phil. 
1864, p. 4 

- Metes On the Rio Grande from El Eee downwards ! 

_S. pepara Torr. in Pl. Wri ght, i. p. 17. 
file ‘Hobk: & Arn. Bot. Beechey, p. 326. 
Jolium A. Gray, Pl, Fendl. p. 21. 
M. coccineum var, a Torrey, Stanb. Rep. p. 384. 
Malva Creeana in Bot. Ma ag. t. 83698, perhaps. 

Hab. W. Texas to §. Arizona. N.W. Nevada. 

Var. ANGUSTILOBA oat Gray in Proc. Am. ae XXll. p. 292. 
Malvastrum coccineum citi Pl. Wright, i. p. 

Hab. Valley of the ea 


@ grossularia- 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 868 


8. S. catrrornica Rose l.c. p. 66. Caule erecto ligneo tereto fulvo- 
stellato, felis lanceolatis vel ovato-lanceolatis basi subcordati vel 


laminam. petiolo #quante vel longiore, floribus axillaribus aggre- 
gatis vel subaggregatis pedicellis gracilibus spe torquatis, bracteolis 
linearibus, calyce externe stellato- -pubescentibus, sepalis triangu- 
laribus vel lanceolatis acuminatis vel s subacuminatis, petalis calyce 
iat auranteo-flavis, carpellis 1-spermis superne vacuis 
reticulat 

Hab Pe California, La Paz, Dr. E. Palmer, No. 18! 

Stem 1-4 ft., poasithy more ; leaves 1- 13 in. long ; calyx } in. 
long ; natal 4inl 

his must be ahemaly related to the plant described by Prof. 

K. L. Greene in the Fl. Franciscana, pt. i. p. 109, as Malvastrum 
cares 

9. S. Mosiiivs Spach. Hist. Veg. iii. p. 855. Malva Munroana 
Dougl. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1806. Nuttallia Munroana Nutt. in 
Journ. Acad. Phil. vii. p.16. Malvastrum Munroanum A. Gray, Pl. 
Fendl. p. 21, excl. syn. 

Hab Northern Interior Region, United States! 

10. 8. Linpaermert A. Mi in Pl. Lindh. ii. p, 162. 

Hab. 8S. Texas. Mexic 

11. 8. masrunara A. Gey, Pl. Wright, i. p. 17. 

Hab. §.W. Texas. New Mexico! Mexico! 

12. §. suspastata Coulter, Contr. Nat. vaste No. ul. p. 82. 

Hab. §.W. Texas. New Mexico. Mex 

13. 8. runva ne Pitt. i. p. 201. 

Hab. Cedros Island. 

May belong to next section. 

* * * Flores lilacint. 
14. §. viozacea Rose J. c. p. 81. 
Hab. Lower California. Santa Rosalia, Dr. Palmer, No. 206. 
+ + Australi-Americane. 
. 8. Hornscuucuiana = Malva a Walp. 

Hab Peru, Meyer! Arequipa, Lord Colchester ! 

16. §. caprrara Phil. in Pl. Nuey. Chil. e538. p. 8. 

Hab. Chili. 

17. S. crispa Hook. MSS. in herb. Kew. Caulibus tenuibus 
adscendentibus, foliis pinnatisectis segmentis interdum lobatis 
oblongis ice acutis utrinque tenuiter BIO: pubescentibus, 
floribus ss Mathie ad extremitates caulium aggregati ve b 
aggregatis, bracteolis calyce brevioribus, sepalis triangularibus vel 
lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis calyce longioribus, epee 1-spermis 
superne vacuis lateribus agent — dorso rugosi 

Hab. Patagonia, J. L. Williams Andrew ‘ 

This plant has pied divided leave and is more or less covere 
with a silvery pubese 

Stems about 10 in. Wile petals about $ in. long. 


864 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZX. 


‘‘Plant spreading and bushy; blossom of a scone us or 
deep crimson, like a minute poppy; found in clay so ow 
plains, one near burrows of such animals as the “etal and 
dolichot 


externe cinereo- subvelutinis, floribus axillaribus pedunculatis vel 
subsessilibus y versus apicem caulium sig Semone ees? obovatis 


2 
ee] 
e. 


Prov. Larecaja. oo Sorata i in nemori- 
bus,” G. incor No. 808! Alt. 2800-3000 m. 
or pacgems 1-2 ft.; leaves ooh in. long ; petiole 4-1 in. 
n 


ny) 
to S. angustifolia St. Hil. 
§ 2 ie HERALCEA, aunt lineares vel lanceolate liberee. 
Carpella a S-cvtnid 4 1-8-sper 
. cer 
© Folia haud aceriformia. 
ANGUSTIFOLIA G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 465. Malva an- 


9. 8. 
gustifolia Cay.; DC. Prod. i. p. 485 ; Bot. Mag, t 2839. Spheroma 
Bags tear Schlecht. in Linnea, ii. p. 358 


Var a A. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. p. 2938. 
Soke lta Torr. & ee i. p. 228. Sida stellata Torr. in 
Ann. L emt yas Malva yea a; sll a iy. p. 816. 

Hab. Texas to Arizona and 8. Color Mexico! 

0. 8. ampigva A. Gray in Proc. re “age Xxii, p. 292. 
8. Emoryi Torr. in Ives Colorado Exp. Bot. p. 1 

Hab. Arizona. West Texas. Nevada. Lower California ! 
Mexico! 

21. §. Emoryz Torr. in Gray Pl. Fendl. p. 28. 

com b. Arizona! California! Mexico! New Mexico! 

Feyptent A. Gray, Pl. Wright. i. p. 21. miniata 
dl. 


8. ns 
A. reel Pl. Fendl. p. 19, non Spach. §. incana var. Fendleri 
Pl. Whe el. p. 7. 


Hab. West Texas to Arizona! New Mexico! 

23. 8. mcana Torr. in Gray Pl. Fendl. p. 23. 

Hab. §.W. Texas. New Mexico! Arizona. Mexico! 
Var. pissrora A, Gr ray, Pl. Wright. p. 21. 

Hab. New Mexico, Wright ! 

24. S. Wrieutm A, Gra ay, Pl. eeer ii, p. 21. 

Hab. N. Mexico, Wright, No. 1 


25. S. Ruspyr A. Nigel : gre He aed Xxli. p. 298, 
Hab. Arizona, Dr, 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 865 


26. S. rrorrsunpa Schlecht. in Linnea, xi. p. 868. 

Hab. nee ico. Oaxaca, Galeotti, No. 4088! 

Var Floribus axillaribus pedunculis 1-8-floris peti- 
olis sath Dngioctdd foliis superne nigrescentibus subtus incano- 
pubescentibus bracteolis lanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis calyce 
brevioribus, petalis (in sicco scornlaiey: chorale carpellis reniformi- 
bus 1-3-spermis, seminibus renifor 

Hab. exico, Coulter, No. 800! 

Leavy Bou slightly lobed, 14-2 in. long, the same broad; 
petals ness 1 n. long ; capsules 4 in. long. Possibly may be a 
distinct spec 

27. S. mintata Spach. Hist. ack iii. p. 852; Bot. Mag. t. 5988. 
Malva miniata Cav.; Jacq. Frag. t. 132; DG. Prod. i. p. 435. 
Spheroma miniata Garcke in Bot. Teil. 18538, p. 847. 

Argentine Republic ! 

Var. menpocina K. Schum. be c. p. 451. 

Hab. Argentine Republic 

Var. RHomBIFOLIA. K. mi lle. S. rhombifolia Gris. Pl. 
Lorentz. 4. 

Hab. Argentine Republic. Prov. Tucuman! 
¥ Var. alae K. Schum. J.c. 8S. Cisplatina St. Hil. Pl. 

suel. ¢ 

a. 5 ae Republic! Paraguay. Uruguay! 

. 8. Bonartensis Gris. aa Lorentz. p. 44. tity ce iy 
iiss: “DC. Prod. i. p. 483. ? M. prostrata Phil. Ann. Uni 
1870, ii. p. 168. 

Hab. Argentine Republic ! 

Var. uactnrara K. Schum. l.c. Cristaria heterophyllum Gris. l.c., 
non Hook. & Arn 

Hab. Argentine Republic. Prov. Cordoba, Lorentz, No. 284; 
eh 

. 8. oprustiona Don, Gen. Syst. i. p. 46 35. Malwa obtusiloba 
nue is Bot. Mag. t. 2787. M. Berteroniana Steud. in Flora, 
1856, p. au S. rupestris Phil. in Linnea, xxxiii. p. 26. 8. Gayana 
Sa Le, p.. 28 (8. gavel Gay). Pi S. pees Phil. lc. p. 24. 8 

eterna Phil. . pe Bs, ex. cr. 
x. descr. S. eae Phil. in Anales Univ. 1872, p. 680. 
8. iat Phil. Pl. Nuev. Chil. 1898, p. 6, ex. deser. 8, circinata 

-¢c. p. 7, ex. deser. 

‘Ba. Chili ! 

80. S. verurina Presl, Reliq. Haenk. ii. p. 124. S. valparidisea 
Phil. in Pl. Nuev. Chil. 1898, p .12. S. choapina Phil. in Linnea, 
XXXilil. p. 27, ex. descr. 

“ ab. “et 


. 8. sis Gay, Fl. ge i. p. 298. 8. sce ba 
Phil EL foro “Chil. 13 898, p. 5, ex. descr. S. glabrata Phil. 
Linnea, xxxiii. p. 22, ex. deser. 3. ‘viridis Phil. Pl. Nuev. Chil. 
Pp. 8, ex. deser, 
Hab, _ Chili! 


866 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEZR, 


© Folia aceriformia. 

32, 8. acerironia Nutt. in Torr. & Gray Fl. i. p. 228; Bot. Mag. 
t. 5404. 8. rivularis Torr. in tr dohyesree p. 23. Malva rivularis 
Doug. ; tek: Fl. Bor. Am. i. 

Hab. British Columbia to Sethe Mts. ! Dakota. Illinois. 

83. S. nonersepata Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. p. 255 

Hab. Washington Territory, on of Upper Colum 

Dr. Gray, in Proc, Am. Acad. xxii. p. 294, s eithec otal 

34, §. asurmormes G. Don, Gen, Syst. i. p. 465. Malva abu- 
tiloides L.; DC. Prod. i. Bs 435; Jacq. Hort. ‘Schoen. 8, t. 298; 


Hab. ! rolin 
A. Eggersii Bak. fil, is Fielavel to the above. 


by: Gerontogew. 
S. exzcans Don, Gen. Syst. i. p.465. Malva elegans Cav. ; 
DC. Prod, 1, p. 445. M. anomala L. & O. Ie. p. 51, t. 22? 
np Cape of Good Ho ope. 
8. ho te Harv. in Fl. Capensis, i. p. 165, 
Hab, Cape of Good Bone Drege! 
The stem of this plant is pilose. 
37. S. rrirtora Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 800, 
yes Java. 
have _ seen specimens of this plant: i Iti- 
a ie ie p of this plant; it may be only culti 


38. S. os vastroides, n. Caule erecto lignoso ramoso 
ramibus junioribus stellato. Saber ches, foliis ovatis plus minusve 
trilobatis margine sinuatis crenatis vel enato-serratis pannosis 


Leaves 3- -1; in in ; petals 4 
ae on plant is seen allied to Midesliiiee asperrimum Gray & 


§ 8. Spamroma Harv. in Fl. Ca ensis i, 166 nus 
Bracteoles connate persistentes 8-fidia. : é page 
om “i pecwers: externe processibus filiformibus non obtectem. 

Spheroma Julii H ; 
DO. Prod : P pris Pp . Hedi - tld lc. Lavatera Julii Burch. ; 
No Caledon River, Burke ! District of Albert, Cooper, 
ot 08 Onaga River, Burke! District of Hopetown, alt. 4500 ft., 


SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 867 


40. S. prostrata = Spheroma prostrata Harv. l.c. Lavatera 
prostrata EK. Mey. 
Hab, Cape. Bank of oe River, Burke! 

Var. 8. Motus Harv 

Hab. Cape, Dredge ii 7325a & b! 

© © Bracteole externe processibus = erngr aren 

41. S. pannosa Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soe. xxv. p. 1 

Hab. East ses eget Mt. Currie, W. Tysim. Herb. Norm. 
Austro-Afric. No. 4 

§ 4. Meurniea Zuce. Pl. Nov. Fase. ii. p. 51, t. 9 (genus). 
haan ovate vel apashalesttlion: disco levi 5-lobo ealycis basin 
vestien 

42. = UMBELLATA §t. Hil.; Hemsl. in Biolog. Centr. Am. i. 


p- 114. S. Galeottiti Turez in Bull. Soc. Mose. 1858, p. 186. 
Malva umbellata Cav.; DC. Prod. i. p. . 38S. vitifolia Hemsl. 
Biolog. Centr. Amer. i. p. 114. Meliphiea vitifolia Luce. Pl. Nov. 
Fase. ii. p. 52, t 

Hab. exact 


Var. rosea = Malva rosea Calques des Dess. Fl. Mex. p. 58; 
DC. Prod. i. p. 485. Foliis 4 lobis acutis, bracteolis ovatis ses- 
silibus 8- -nerviis, floribus rosei 

ab. exico, C. Jureearn. No. 529! 

The bracteoles in the figure of Maliphica vitifolia Zuec. vary 
considerably from the deseription in DeCandolle’s Prodromus of 
the bracteoles of Malva umbellata 

43. §. nurans wr ee in Fl. aa. ees: vii. p. 221, t. 726. 

Hab. Guatemala 

Species anomala. - 
44, §, ortsprroria. Sida crispifolia Cay. Icones, v. t. 419; DC. 
4 


South America. Port Desire! 
Species Chilenses non satis note 
45, 8. menpocrna Phil. in Anales Univ. 1862, ii. p. 892. 
. Mendoza. 


46, §. sessrzirtora Phil. in Anales Univ. 1872, p. 679. 
. Chili. 


47. §. Permroana Phil. in Pl. Nuev. Chil. ovat p. 9. 
Hab. Andes. Prov. ae Manuel Vid 

48. §. puncnexia Phil. / 

Hab. Nr. Coquimbo, Dirndl 

49. §. caprruuirtora Phil. l. ¢. p. 1 

Hab. Andes. Prov. Burico, fae Vidal. 

50. §. arenaria Phil. /.c. p. il. 

Hab. Nr. Coquimbo, Cornish, 

51. 8. puroava Phil. J. c. p. 6. 

Hab, Chili, nr, Valparaiso. 


868 SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVER. 


Species exclusa. 
he ale Jilicaulis Hemsl. = Sida diffusa H. 
8. filic i var. setosa Hemsl. = Sida diffusa var. setosa. 
IV. MODIOLA. Moench. Meth. p. 619. Bracteole 8 liberm. 
Carpella intus inter semina transversim septata. 
- M. muuteema Moench. Meth. p. 620. M. caroliniana G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. i. p. 465; WRE a ies ii. p. 72, t. 128. Malva caro- 


liniana L.; DC. Prod. i, p. 485. M. decumbens Willd. ; DC. 7 

p. 436. M. prostrata Cav.; DC. lec. M. oun plang H.B.K. Now 
Gen. et Sp. v. p.215. M. oriecarpa DC. Prod. 1. ¢. a renee 
St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. p- 212. . M. piesa St. Hil. M. 


urticifolia et ABS et G. Don, l.c. M. erecta ee in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. 1859, p. 647. 
ab. Widel spread in America from Southern United States 
Soak a a Republic, Paraguay, and Uruguay! Juan Fernandez! 
am 
cries @ macropodia Phil. Pl. Nuey. Chil. 1893 3, p. 20 (Malv 
ro ito Steud. in Flora, 1856, Pp. 426), is evidently closely allied 
oO ve, 
- LaTERITIA K, Schum. 1, ¢. P eee t. aan ? Malva pedun- 
aha ae ‘. is in Hook. Mise li. p. 15 t 
ab, Argentine Republic! U ! P Rio 
Giehdr ae ae p ruguay * Brazil, Tov. 
- K. Schumann has transferred this plant from the jae 
Malvastrum, where it was for soaked ae to Modiola. See Jou 
Bot. vol. xxix, Pp. 169, for syno 
pecies . 
Modiola geranioides Walp. = Modiolastrum geranioides Bak. fil. 
XXV. MODIOLASTRUM K. Schum. J, ¢, p. 276. Bracteole 
calycis basi adnate vel a calyce remote. Ovula golitaria pro loculo, 
adscendentia. Disse epimentum a Che ea oriundum locullos 
in loculamenta bina superposita seper: 
* Bracteole si we adnate. 


M. ae K. re é : oli 
Gris Sym. ne Flor. A mM. (.¢.p. 277. Modiola malvifolia 


gentine ec og Paraguay, 


2. M. cerantomrs = Modiola geranioides Wal Re 296. 
Malva geranioides Gillies MSS, : ; Hook, Bot. Mian is we Ho Mal- 


rsh hence Baker in Gard. Chron, 1885, p. 166. Malva Gilliesii 
Ha 


- Chili, nr.  Qillot: Gillies! Argentine Republic. Parana! 
ei ** Bracteole a calyce remote 
Aectanum K. Schum. 1. ¢, p, 9 ‘ 
Gris MSB., as Bt. Hil. ¢. p. 278, t. liv. ee reptans 
Uruguay, Lorente, Flora Entreriana, No. 1 
Ths genus is intermediate between Modiola A Mal lvastrum. 


I have placed it next to Modiol it 
differs from the Abutilee in the paid account of its habit, but i 


869 


CYPERUS FUSCUS IN DORSET AND HANTS. 
By Epwarp F. Linton, M.A. 


Regis, in Dorset, having been stimulated to look for it by its recent 
detection in South Hants. If there were any ground for suspicion 
n 


England, if not further north; for it is most improbable that we 
should have hit on the only two localities in this part of the 
country. This Cyperus is very easily overlooked. Mr. J.C. Mansel- 
Pleydell tells me that he has more than once examined the very 
ground where I detected it, and seen nothing of it. This is not 
surprising: the marsh was, from what I could learn, less watery 
than usual, after the prolonged drought of last summer; an the 
little sedge is so inconspicuous, and so often half-buried in the loose 
herbage, that I doubt if I should have found it myself but for having 
it on the brain. About a fortnight later I happened to be in the 
same district again, and found, at a fresh spot nearly two miles 


with very numerous stems, and full of ripening seed, which would, 
I hope, secure the propagation of the plant for other years. 

Sir J. D. Hooker states that the plant was naturalised at the 
Chelsea station.* Some doubt has even been cast on the Surrey 
locality, as possibly not native. 

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evidence now, whic 


is no just suspicion, as native also. atior 
from its indigenous occurrence in these two adjoining counties, 
Dorset and Hants, is that the sedge 1s native, too, on Shalford 


a se isles, but to find it so rarely. A plant that 
PE . Wl nda 1 Aid 
not to find 36 an pera fe hole continent, from Middle and South 


ia to 1. 
the shores of the Mediterranean and the Levant, may well be 
. three southern counties of 


England; and further research, i War 
will be very likely to justify the expectation. 
Journ. Bot. 1871, pp. 148, 212. 


* (See, for further information on this point, 
. Journ. Bor. ] 


[Dec, 1893.] 28 


JournaL or Botany.—-VOL, 81, 


870 


REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF. BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1892. 


By Wituiam Carruruers, F.R.S. 


specimens, of which 9000 are Mosses, 6000 Hepatics, and 5000 

ichens, he plants are chiefly British, and supply several 
desiderata to the British collections, besides greatly adding to the 
representation of the distribution of the species 


of 812 species from India, presented by C. B ., F.R.S. 
88 species from Swatow, China, by the Rev. P. T. Maclagan; 456 


nd ne 
. Major Willoughby Verner, Prof. E. Perceval 
aenehs, i ringier Gibson, Mrs. Weber van Bosse, Rev. E. S. 


Pg 
Among the additions to the British Herbarium, by presentation, 
es from the Rey. E. §. Marshall; 
: ‘ - Lea; 40 species from A. Bennett, 
8q.; 42 named Species and varieties of Rubus from Dr. de Cres- 
‘Pigny; and interesting species from the Rev. W. R. Linton, Messrs. 


yan plants, from Dr. King; 32 species of North 
; alae Myxomyecetes, from Professor MacBride ; 100 species of 
OPP achian Mosses, from Mrs. Britton; and 234 specimens 0 
pees from the herbarium of Alex. Braun, from the Director 

€ Royal Botanical Gardens, Berlin, 


‘SHORT NOTES. -$71 


The following collections have been acquired by purchase :— 
800 species of European plants, from Dr. Schultz; 478 species 
from Spain, collected by Porta and Rigo; 362 species from Turkey, 
collected by Sintenis ; 348 species from Dahuria, collected by Karo; 
70 species from Syria, collected by Dr. Post; 117 species from 
Natal, by J. M. Wood; 195 species from Madagascar, collected by 
the Rev. R. Baron; 510 species from Bolivia, collected by Bang; 
205 species from Paraguay, collected by Morong; 170 species from 
Western China, being the completion of the collection of Mr. Pratt; 
494 Hepatice from the Amazon, collected by Spruce; 1968 species 
of cellular plants from different regions, from Professor Ralfs; 1 
species of Algm of Europe, from Roumeguére and Dupray; 50 
species of Italian Algw, from Dr. Levi-Morenos; 100 European Alge, 
from Hauck; 25 species of Characea, from Migula; 400 species. of 
European Mosses, from Sydow; 565 species of Brazilian Lichens, 
e 


species of American Fungi, from Seymour and Earl. Eg 
illiam Sowerby, Esq., presented a model of Clathrus can- 
cellatus made. by the elder Sowerby, which has been added to the 
models in the Exhibition Gallery. Z 

The collection of prints and drawings of plants has been 
inereased by the presentation of 11 illustrations of the species of 


Mr. George Massee; and by the purchase of 21 original 
i i, by J. Bolton, of Halifax; and 1036 original 


the Roval Gardens, Kew, has been systematically arranged and 
mounted to secure their permanent preservation and easy reference. 


SHORT NOTES. 
- Burocwarrs actounarrs (p. 809).—Would it not be more correet 
to speak of Mr. Praeger’s submerged lant as a state rather than a 
form? and also of leaves rather than “ stem” in a flowerless con- 
dition of the species 
bes, in Surrey, 


872 SHORT NOTES. 


U. Bremii, but is unable to say definitely in the absence of flowers, 
which unfortunately were not produced.—A. H. Wottxy Don. 
EPitostum mimsurum X oBscuRUM IN Cursing. — Last summer 
I came across a patch of this hybrid by a pond-side in Edge Park, 
which the Rev. E. S. Marshall kindly named for me, adding that 


E. 
obscurum, differing from the former in being about half the size in 
all its parts, and much less hairy; its leaves are more rounded in at 


those of F. hirsutum. I have dried Some specimens for the Bot. 
Exch. Club.—A. H. Wottzy Don. 


_ U¥copoprum aLpmnum in Woroxsrersumr, — During a few days’ 
visit to Malvern in August last, I was fortunate enough to ges 


county, by the Rey. C. Babington and Mrs. Walker in 1836, This 
tecord, which has been kindly sent me by Mr. Towndrow, of Mal- 


SHORT NOTES. 373 


vern Link, is quoted at ae by Mr. W. Mathews in the Midland 
Naturalist for 1892, p. 118. The writer adds, however, ‘In 
m to 


ct. 
representative of the genus was asin to the late Mr. Lees when 
he published his Botany of Malvern in 1868.—F Rreeman Roper, Jun, 


Pyroza sERoTiInA Mleq.—At p. 834 I remarked that I had not 
seen a specimen of P. serotina Mleq. Since then I have F ivage 
a sheet of ee from Béthune via de-Calais) in the 
Herbarium, and there seems no doubt that they are the same PA 


Lancashire plant, though they have larger leaves. Mr. A. Somer- 
ville Fie also kindly forwarded me specimens of P. minor from the 
sands of Ardeer, Ayrshire, gathered by Mr. J. Smith late in 
Ootober' thus they are pails in a condition for comparison, but, 
so far as they can be ared, they seem to be the same as 


an 
specimens I possess pore: Mestiatnay (hast Ee Islands) sent 
me by Drs. Focke and Buchenau. the or (Lantzius-Beninga) 


of the var. arenaria of minor relied eka on the smaller, but 
more rotund leaves, and the larger flowers. I find on the ordinary 
minor 1-4 bracts on the scapes, on the Ardeer plant 1-2 only, so 
that the plant does not seem to follow the var. of rotundifolia in 
producing a whee? number of bracts than the type. The Ardeer 
specimens are 84-54 in. high, the ordinary plant 6-12 in. high. 
The leaves are decidedly smaller, rounder, and the petioles shorter, 
the whole aaece a good deal like small specimens of 


Pse oe reprint in the Journ. Bot. p. 848, ht gi of Dr. 
Britton on Pseva as an “illustration of Dr. Fc Sig ol of 
working,” but you overlooked my notice to en, Pl. 
390, that I have not seen in this case the ost. see ea My 

y 


to reject a name. I hope 1s will carsect your mistake in the next 
number of your Journal.—Orro Kun 

I willingly insert Dr. Kuntze’s “iste, but it still appears to m 
that he is entirely responsible for the restitution of the genus, ea 
for the naming of the four species which he places in it. The 
ows: Pui Raf. (1809) Obs. ex 


l. ec. die Prioritit fiir seine schon 1809 ge egebene Benennung, 
z: mais le nom e Pursh est 


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Arten sind: Pseva umbellata (L.) [Nutt.], Menziesii (R. Br.) 


374 SHORT NOTES. 


Spr.], maculata (L.) [Pursch], japonica [Miq.] OK. Die Citate 
pape To fiir Sag, die in [] fiir Chimophila, Welche Art oder 
ob tberhaupt eine Art von Rafinesque benannt i st, weiss ich nicht, 


in 
I more especially perce was the practice of inventing a series 
of new names under a § dor the establishment of which no 
sufficient evidence was fortheoit ing. If Dr. Kuntze had followed 


why Dr. Kuntze speaks of ‘ Chimophila Pursch.” Pursh wrote 


n rpuas- 
cens’’ for J. Senet Muell. Tt is to be regretted that some 
more useful or at least les for th 


superabundant eae of ‘liiah Prof. Greene seems to be ‘possessed. 
James Brr 


Urricunaria INTERMEDIA IN Hast Norronx. — In August last we 
found this plant, in considerable abundance, in the very wet fenland 
bordering on Stalham and Barton Broads, a nd by the river Aut, 
in the same neighbourhood. The distribution 3 the plant in 
England, as recorded in the To pographical Botany, is very curious 


. Benne tha 
thinking that Kirby Trimmer’s plant might be U. neglecta. Watson 
mentions insufficiently vouched records for Devon, Somerset, Bucks, 
i und i 


ther fenland and pe 

records for oe Scottish counties, in addition to the eight given 
in Topographical Botany, showing Std it is generally distributed 
Seesnghout | Scotland.t—H. & J. Gro 

Oxyria in Norra Lancasuine, — in August 7th last, Mr. W. 
Piiekydith ae Ulverston, found Owyria digyna at Tilberthwaite, 
ne =. Conisto act a new record for N, Lancs. I have seen specimens. 
—ListE 


racial —In the Rev. E. 8. Marshall’s paper on Potentilla- 
Hybrids (pp. 825-7) occur the following misprints, which it seems 
desirable to correct :—p. $25, line 2 from bottom, for “ Ham Moor, 


* Erythea, 1893, pp. 114, 115, 


t Since writing the above, we hear that U. intermedia has been — from 
be t Norfolk by Mr. Geldart in Trans. Norf. & Norw. Nat. Soc. 1889-90.— 


HANDBOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 875. 


near Alstonefield, ” read’ ‘‘Ilam Moor, near pistonene ocr p. 326, 

lines 10, 11, for ‘‘ Reap’s Moor,” ‘‘ Longuor,” and “ Alst jeesid. é, 
read ‘‘ Reapsmoor,’’. « Longnor,” and “ Alstonfield ” ; : a 17, for 

“ Newtonbutle, D Dr. Mathew,” read «‘ Newtownbreda, Dr. Mateer 


NOVICES OF BOOKS. 


Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the 
species of flowering plants indigenous to the Island, and notes on 

their history, distribution, and uses. Tex NR n, M. 
(Lond.), F.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Ceylon. With an Atlas of Plates, illustrating some o of the 
more interesting species. Part I. Ranunculacese — Ana- 
cardiacew: with plates i—xxv. Published under the authority 
of the Government of Ceylon. London: Dulau & Co. [8vo, 

pp. xvi, 827: plates, 4to, i—xxv.] 

Ir is to be regretted that a notice of this important work has 

not been undertaken by some one who, from his acquaintance wi 


a botanical standpoint. ut as our attempts to secure such a 
reviewer have been unsuccessful, and as the book presents note- 
worthy features apart from its technical value, it seems desirable to 
call attention to these, vette for some future occasion and abler 
critic a more detailed notic 
Dr. Trimen’s name, since he left this country for Ceylon in 
1879, has ceased to be familiar to British botanists. It may w 
be that later generations are unaware how completely the Flora 
of Middlésea, published in 1869, eylationized the ec on 
c 


appears 
on the title-page. tid rag note of originality is struck by the 
Handbook now under n 
Glancing through the ee Colonial Floras which have been 
published or executed in this sou it is manifest that they have 
for the most part been undertaken by botanists whose know 


of the plants described was alt mainly, and in most cases 
The author of the Flora 


nd, although working in close 
Kew, very seldom examined 


ants for 
Eg Flora of Tropical Africa were never 
Mr. Baker’s knowledge of =“ e lora of ve is engi derived 
from the herbarium; and so we might continu result in all 
these cases is the i gopage of ‘handbooks ees oak for = 
barium wor no means so suitable for use in the 
Moreover, the condensation necessary renders it impossible to oe 


376 HANDBOOK TO THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 


notes on local uses and names, even when information as to these is 
forthcoming. 

Dr. Trimen’s aim is not so much the convenience of the 
herbarium botanist as ‘to enable observers in Ceylon to ascertain 


of its bulk. The work is announced as forming two volume 
of two parts each, with a hundred quarto plates. These latter can 


would have rendered it much easier for use in the field. On the 

present scale, two parts will make a somewhat unwieldy volume, 

while four separate instalments are inconvenient to carry about. 

Perhaps a thin-paper issue may be contemplated for this purpose ; 
stion. 


commenced more than fifty years ago, and has been steadily con- 
s. It now numbers several 


377 


Tur VEGETATION OF THE JuRA Lakes. 


Recherches sur i Végétation des Lacs du Jura. Par M. Ant. Maenin. 
e la Revue Générale de Botanique, aiaal 5 (1893), 
pp. ered et 803-316.) Paris: Paul Klincksi 


Iv various publications Dr. Magnin has given ae of his 
exploration of the sixty lakes of the Jura. He here brings together 
all these, and gives a complete review of his work, ‘‘in the depth, 

he e temperatur ure, the coloration, the transparency, the vegetation, 
the biological conditions, &c.,” extending from 1890 to the present 
year. 

Dr. in divides these lakes into three series, ‘‘lac normal,” 
‘lac de tourbiéres,’’ and ‘‘lac-étang,” the first of course being 
almost always the deepest, and the last usually the enews t. He 
traces out certain zones of vegetation in the first two series o 
lakes:—1, the zone of Carex; 2, of Phragmites; 8, of Scirpus; 4, of 
Nuphar ; 5, of Potamogeton ; and 6, of Characea. These of course must 
be taken in a general sense, not as strictly exact, as in early pErngs 
when the water-level is high, Charas and Nitellas will often 
gathered in the Scirpus zone (certainly in England) ; later, as tie 


flow 
even. the ppianny ies some of which (notably P. ae wi 


iver in ate water; and P ms will not survive 
seg = the air for long. In this ronan a great deal of careful 
work is yet required to work out the conditions of growth of our 
submerged water plants under unlikely conditions. 

The vegetation of these lakes is very similar to many Scotch 
ones, the only ear cn are forei apt to our Flora — a 


nN m Lange, N. Spennerianum; Char 
jurensis Hy and var. ” Magnini Hy (oth new), Nitella fablate, 
Trapa natans, and Naias major (the last in England in three 
stations; not in one, as recently reporte 

Of these, Trapa natans is decidedly the most ~ eae its 


ains were found associated with Naias major in Norfolk, and 


river for y with a dense mass of vegetation often 6 to 9 in. in 


thickness; further on by a similar growth of Potamogeton natans or 


* See Journ. Bot. 1893, p. 182. 


878 ELEMENTARY TEXT-BOOK OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY. 


same space. The ‘roading’ or clearing of ditches and dykes no 
doubt influences this, and by depositing at certain points large 
masses of seeding plants perhaps produce the above result. Often 
in small masses, it can be traced to a single central plant. Dr. 


a certain extent. Thus the character of lacustrine botany is not so 


aoe the number of species, but the large masses of individual 
plants. 


Weber, a very rare French species. To the flora of France he has 


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Ireland bids fair to have hers examined; will not some botanist 

give pea ie fremont and do some such work for the honour of 
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Artuur BENNETT. 


An Elementary Text-book of Agricultural Botany. B 
Y. M. C. Porter. 
M.A.,F.L.8. Methuen & Co. 8vo, pp. xii, 250 99 cuts. 3s. 6d. 


of the needs of the agricultural student, and therefore it supplies a 
want felt by those teaching in farming colleges and oehae ples 


_ +he iirst portion deals with the cell, and then treats of the root, 
skin and leaf, all from both physiological and morphological points 
of view; and the text is illustrated by figures from Sachs, Stras- 
burger, Detmar, Vines, and others. The reproductive portions 

fruit and seed—oceupy the next three 


e 
able to devote one chapter to it. Even so, it would surely have 


ROMANCE OF LOW LIFE AMONGST PLANTS. 379 


been better to give a mere list of some of the more important diseases 
to which cultivated farm plants are subject in Britain, instead 


‘* Damping-off,” and ‘ White-rust,” not to speak of the fungi 
attacking fruit and timber trees, is a mistake ; and we feel it would 
have been oo ec “ the subject altogether alone than to treat 


it in so spar 
The ees tots eis pe: book is systematic (in a botanical sense) ; 
its eccentric arrangement hardly justifies such a description. ) 


Grasses appear first, then Leguminose, and after both a chapter 
called “Classification of plants,”’ prin one ien a other pisniai 
but refers back to the portions on Grasses and minose. 
descriptions 0 pit — are ete meagre, tad the sah 
‘* Determ ca ea of Grasses,’”’ will not by itself, or en with the 
plates, help the a rg to identify species. For example, Poa 
pratensis is described as ‘‘ Smooth meadow grass, seoognised by its 


. ) Hp 
whose hands this book ma will be able to amplify and 


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sion Series’’ to which it belongs. IR.’Gi 


Romance oe ie Life amongst Plants. By M. C. Cooxs, M.A., 

A.L.8. (Society for Proiotlag —— Kaowiedes. ) 
1893. ” Byo, pp. vii, 820, figs. 60. Pric 
TxERE must still be in these piping times a ee of innocent 
people who delight to hear of the wonders of Pio for whom the 
search after truth has no attraction if it be not marvellous in its 
revelation. They have persisted since the an of Sir John 
om 


o return 9 Dr. Cooke’s account of those romantic organisms, 
the eryptogams; if such a book had to be written it is plain that he 


S30 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


is the man to write He has had much experience in writing 
popular books, and oan just the kind of —.. one 92 kles. He 
oi aan goes to do some “fine writing,” o drop into 

dged by the grag at such Freoraetl it is no aot 


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erd, consisting of t of ome botanical books (except 


ene this and much m n the same subject is more than 

c—it is intemperate atakanient and surpasses the license 
omer to romance writers. On page 6 we read, “ es the Floridee 
the sexual organs of reproduction are gonidia, four of which are 
usually formed in a mother-cell, and hence termed ‘ seunponttis ab 
them? other passages marked in my copy, but why proceed with 


dex to this book resembles that of Grevillea and other 
publications in which Dr. Cooke has had a hand . left a nde 
** What is Nostoc?” indexed under “ What,” is musing enough; 
but “The cae bacillus,” “‘ The destroyer,” both indexed under 
the,” without anything under “ comma,” “ bacillus,” or ‘ de- 
stroyer,” is ely @ record. G.M 


ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 


Bot. Centralblatt. (Nos. 45, 46). — H, Sogery ‘ Anatomische 
Charakteristik der Combretaceen.’ — (No. 45). M. Miyoshe, ‘ Die 
essbare Flechte Japans’ (Gyrophora esculenta, sp. n 
Botanical ory (Oct. 16). — J. G. Jack, ‘Fracifcation = 
=o tl (1 plate).— D. M. Mottier, ‘ Development of embry 
= Acer shell (1 plate). — M. A. Nichols, ‘ Achenial his of 
~enecanlthg Ser Hol, Ma Ru ssell, ‘ Bacterial flora of Atlantic 
Wo oll, Mass.’ (1 plate). — D. T. al 
‘ Intertwining of Tendrils.’ oe engi 
Bot. Zeitung (Noy. 1).—E. Orato, ‘ Morphologisch ikro- 
chemische Didetmeahes di iiber die Phy a Fy ; ‘aa | ee 
‘ ulletin de UV Herb. Boissier (No. 10).—C. DeCandolle, ‘ L’Etude 
ce ag aye (2 gee aaa Sertorius, ‘ Zur Kenntniss der 
er Cornacea.’ — A. Rodrigue, ‘ Sur la structure du 
a Sage séminal des Polygalacées,’ — J. "Fre ‘Neue Pf n- 
arten der Pyrenaischen Halbinsel.’ Sena 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. - 8Bl 


Bull, midis Bot. ~ (Oct.).—A. Schneider, | ‘ Probable cari 
of Plasomen.’—A. F. Foerste, ‘ Botanical Notes es D. Halsted, 
: emg Belaxgoniams.’ —K. G. Britton, ‘ Notes on N. American 
Orthotrichum.’ — G. F. Atkinson, ‘ Unequal Segmentation and = 
significance in primary division of embryo of Ferns.’ — 
perfectly developed embryos on a single pvnthatlnagn of peered 
cuneatum 

Erythea (Nov.). — EH. L. Greene, ‘ Novitates seep — 

. G. Lemmon, Scarab of Monterey and Knobcone Pines.— 
I. L. Blockman, ‘Californian Herb-lore.’ — F. v. oe eller, ‘In- 
definite stamens and subsessile pods in Cleome.’ 

Gardeners’ Chronicle (Oct. 28). — Bolbophyllum easramaa Kranzlin, 
sp. n.—(Nov.4). Kniphofia citrina Baker, sp.n.— rhopetalum orna- 
tissimum (fig. 91). — R, Baron, ‘ Eulophiella Blisabetha.’ — (Nov. 11). 
Furcrea albispina Baker, sp.n.—(Nov. 18). Coleus Penzigit Baker, 

sp. n 


: Tris Naturalist (Nov.). — N. Colgan, ‘ Notes on Flora of Co. 
u 
Journal de Botanique (Oct. 1, 16).— L. Guignard, Pe ae, 
des principes actifs chez les Capparidées, etc.’ — E. ur 
maladie des branches de Sapin causée par le Phoma abictina.’ a P. 
saat ‘ cidium carneum. 
uova Notarisia (Aug., Sept.). — P. Pero, ‘I laghi alpini 
Valtelline — 0. Bor rge, ‘Uebersicht der neu erscheinenden Des- 
Pea 5 ole 
Midland Picea (or, —W. H. Wilkinson, ‘ Lichens of the 
Isle of Man.’—J. E. B gnall, ‘ Flora of Warwickshire 
Naturalist (Nov.). a T. Burgess, Plants of Spilsby, N, Lincoln- 
hire 


Deters Bot. Zeitschrift. (Nov.). — 8. Murbeck, neh iran, poljensis ; 
agnu 


sp.n.—P. Taubert, Trifolium ornithopodioides. — ‘Zur 
5, Verbreitung der i data ietis,’ — J. Freyn, , Plante 
nove ntale K. Polak, ‘ Zur Flora von Bulgarien.’ — 


Franzé, ‘Ueber einige niedere Algento ormen.’ — A. Nestler, ‘Die 
ying von Artanthe cordifolia 

mean Soc. London n (Botany, iii i. pt. 9: 
Ridley, ‘ alorn of asters Coast of Malay rate “6 es 


sl a lee ert 


BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 

Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on Noy. 2nd, Mr. Spencer 

amic botany of the recent 
jer a Cian to Mato Grosso, upon which he acted as botanist. The 
expedition started from Cuyabi, first visiting the Chapada Plateau 
to the east of the city, 7 lvers many plants were iecagell ve 
a journey was made to the new 
des Bugres), on the Paraguay river, 


882 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 


Maria and Diamantino. The flora here is of mixed character, 
nearly 87 per cent. of the plants being common -to Tropical Sorih 
America, upwards of 27 per cent. occurring in the North Brazil- 
Guiana province of Engler, with 20:5 per cent. common to that 
province and the South Brazilian, and only 13 per cent. of South 
Brazilian types. From Santa Cruz a party worked its way through 


more than 28 per cent., and the South Brazilian element is present 
to 


party then came araguay to bi, where many 
plants of interest were found. The expedition was finally abandoned 
at Asuncion. Amo e Amazonian plants collected at Santa 


superba, Epidendrum imatophyllum, Rodriguezia secunda, &c. The 
Cycad* Zamia Brongniartii is a native both of Santa Cruz and of 
n Campos. e collections include close upon 700 
species, of which rather more than 200 are considered to be new. 
There are eight new genera, two of which are Anonaceous, and one 
each referable to Secrophulariacea, Artocarpea, Euphorbiacee, Aroide, 
: Gramineae. Specimens, photographs, and a map, the 
latter constructed by the Messrs. Storm, leaders of the expedition, 
and embodying the geographical discoveries, were exhibited. 

Tue Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, for which Prof. Caruel 
has hitherto been responsible, will, on and after January next, be 
published by the Societd Botanica Italiana. No other change will 
be made in the mode of publication. 


In reference to our paragraph on the Flora of St. Vincent 
e learn -that i impossib ign the papers 


of the Flora implied a want of recoonition of th i f the 
Kew Herbarium staff, and this we py eg eel 
Tue volume (xxv.) of the Journal of the China Branch of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, recently issued at Shanghai, is devoted to a 
new instalment of Dr. Bretschneider’s valuable ‘ Botanicon Sini- 
cum,’ of which we hope to say more at a future period. 
Tue Editor of Erythea seems to be under the impression that 
Kew. is November 
remature circulation” 
of the prospectus of the Index Kewensis as : fault of Kew’’: but a 
sees to p. 317 will show that we put the blame on the right 
oulders, Mr. Jepson also wants to know the exact date of the 
publication of the Index: it was issued on the 6th of September, 


OBITUARY. 888 


but we oe to see that the actual day of the month is of any 
importan 

pokes = os Mokwbz publishes a paper, ‘On the Hepatice of 
the Hill of Howth in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 
(8rd S. iii. No.1). He yaa thirty-six species, two of which, 
Cephalozia relia and Anthelia Juratskana, are new to Ireland, 
and his paper is illustrated “e plates of these. 

Botanica stasenie Who are in the habit of writing plant- 
descriptions will find Young’s Botanical Schedules a great help in 
drawing up an orderly ae, complete account of their specimens. 
These schedules, which are A handy size and printed on good paper, 
are supplied by Ashfield & Young, of 82, Bridge Road West, 


mall Ke 
table to the characteristics of the ctatical British Ratan al Ose. 
compiled by Mr. G. W. You ung. This little work of fifteen pages 
was originally prepared by the author for his own use, but the 
appreciation of its utility by his fellow-workers has induced him to 
proffer it to others, to ‘enable them without trouble to nape sag 
given specimen, and refer it to the order to wh ich it belon 


given as the type of Mascaialace| while the iadeat is left quite in 
the dark as regards the monochlamydeous plants of the order, and 
would be stumped at once by Clematis or Anemone. 

aworTr has issued a Provisional List of the Flowering 


OBITUARY. 


Frrepricn Traveorr Kitzine, the omg phycologist, who 
died at he eat where he was a Professo “7 ae ealschule, 


some Pas years age most of the younger panurilice of phycologists 
were surprised: to discover th 
other friends. He was the most voluminous writer on Algew, and 
though his books all exhibit marks of rapid production, they un- 
doubtedly served their purpose, and some of them still serve it. 


884 OBITUARY, 


His passion for ae classification of Alge included the whole group 
in its widest sen e, from Diatoms and Cyanophycee upwards, fr esh- 


increased the catalogue of names of Algw. There are stages in the 
development of a study when such work is valuable, and Kitzing 

worked at a period when it was even necessary. The more critical 
labours of J. G. Agardh, happily still with us and at work, followed 
and reduced to a scientific system much that was a chaotic assem- 
blage of names in Kiitzing’s hands. He did very much the same 


and a pee sis Diatomacearum in 1834. Ten s later, his be 
known work on Diatoms appeared, Die Kie sistahaRben Bacillarien 
oder Diatomeen. The titles of two papers he published about this 
a ote esate niedrer ae 8 men in héhere and Ueber die 
ung der Infusorien in niedre Algenformen, exhibit the stage 

ie hacer of Phycology at this time. His Phye cologia Generalis,” 
a most notable production, belongs to this period, and following it 
a few years later, viz., in 1849, his Species Algarum. The great 
work of Kiitzing’s life, however, was the Tabule Phycologica, in 
nineteen volumes. Its publication was begun in 1845, and com- 
pleted in 1869. This book, which every working phyco shield refers 
to daily, is a monument of his diligence and zeal for his study, and 


reless printers to wars of nations, &c., that combined to 
ghebrors the Peat of that great book. Many of the plates, he 

$ us, were drawn under circumstances of ‘‘deep sorrow and 
ound by the sick- bed and death-bed of beloved children.” He 
was not fortunately inspired in two books, outside his proper 
subject; the Grundziige der Philosophischen Botanik, and Die 
Sophisten und Dialektiker, die gefiihrlichsten Feinde der wissenschaft- 
lichen Botanik. The latter was a polemic against Schleiden, and a 
somewhat dull production for such literature. His herbarium of 
Alge has been for many years in Leyden, and his Diatom collection 


(some 2000 specimens) was acquired through 
Britich Museum about tp yng rough Eulenstein by the 


arrangem: is n or 
be honoured for well-directed diligence and energy in eet nging 
together great bodies of scattered facts and recor 7 tag 


G. M. 


INDEX. 


For eesaaatty Articles, see—Articies in "out nals; County Records; Obituary ; 
Rev New genera, species, and varieties published in this volume are 


pea by an asterisk, 


Abutilon Bridgesii,* 338 ; discolor,* 
73; Eggersii,* 75; Gale eottii,”* 73; 
Garckei »*. 886; annii,* 268 ; 
Listeri, % 269; Rehmanni,* 217 - 

Zicidium leucosp 


‘ Agricultural vee i: 2g 378 

Ajuga LP erring 

Alchem 122 

ge, Cape, 53,'81, 110, set 171, 

ge Sco tch F reshwater, 

(t. 3 33) ; N. Fealand, 161 (t. 385) 
uloides 


Alisma ranune s var. zosteri- 
folium, 48 
Allen’s Aristo Characee (rev.), 


Allen’s (J. A.) ve aciode 224 
American Plant-na 
Andropogon # Afsstianns, * 857; Ny- 
ass,” 358 
Antholoma Tieghemi, 822 
Arctium intermedium, 56 
Aristothamnion ace 204 
ARTICLES IN JOU 
Asthainol Botaiiy. 30, 158, 255, 349 
aero of Scottish Nat. Hist. , 60, 


Bot. entrant, 80, 60, 94, 127, 
ry 


88, 222, 255, 285, 817, 


"530" 
Bat, _ Gazette - Be 188, 222, 
5, 849, 3 


Bot P itagestia (Pe kio), 80, 60, 
127, 158, 189, 222, 255, 285,317 
Bot. a 80, 94, 158, 189, 317 
Bot. Zeitung, 30, 60, 94, 96, 158, 
189, o 255, 317, 380 
Bull. de 1’He rb. Boissier, 127, 
189, 285, 349, 
c. Bot. France, 94, 127, 
158, 189, 222, 2 
Bot. Cl ub, 30, 60, 
94, eit 158, 189, 222, 255, 286, 
318, 


Erythea, 61, 94, 127, 158, 190, 
222, 255, 286, bey ae 381 


818, $49, "381 

Trish Naturalist, 30, 128, 151, 223, 

286, 318, 350, 381 

‘me r Botani nique, 30, 60, 95, 
159, 190, 223, 255, 286, 


Journ. Hort. Soc., 288 

Journ. Linn. Soe., 95, 190, 286 
Journ. R. Microscop. Soc., 30 
Kew Bullet 

La Nuova Neterisia, 159, 381 
Midland Naturalist, 30, 128, 223, 


Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., 256, 382 
Csterr. Bot. Zeitsch., 80, 60, 95, 
159, 190, 223, 256, 286, 318, 
350, 38 
Trans. Linn. Soe., 223, 381 
Asplenium aniclsiain, 20; acu- 


Australian se nemagees oe 
Azolla carolinian 


Bailey’s ‘ Plant Life,’ 288 
Baker, E. G., Synobei of Malvee, 
68, 212, 267, 334, 3 
Baker, J. G., Set of Rubi (rev.), 
156; his Handbook of Iridex 
(reviewed), 154; Forster’s Bul- 
oe (rev.), 254 > portrait 


of, | 243, 8 
n, *S. ., List of Cape Algex, 
53, wont 110, 138, ees 202 
Beddom echini’s 3 
layan aii 225 ; Tadinn Fern 


227 
| Beeby, W. H., our Endemic List, 65 
2c 


886 


net J., Middlesex Plants, 218 
Be juga De 
9 


or 
= B 
Ws 
° 
+ 
E 
o 
IQ 
oO 
ot 
° 
B 
So 
pad, 


erl 4 
Orobanche caryophyllacea, 218; 
British species of Ginanthe, 236, 

38; Juniperus s intermedia, : 
Pyrola rotundifolia, 332; P. sero- 


tina, 373; Vegetation of Jura 
Lakes (rev.), 387 
Bennett, A. W.,; Notice of G. Wes 


t, A. 
combe, 192; Middlesex a 
249 
as R. de G., Shropshire Mos- 
257 


Bibliographical Notes, 107, 297, 355 
Biographical Index, on uers 280 
Bioph titan um albiflo 

Bois, ‘ Les Orchidées’ Jin 5, 84 


Bolus’ s ‘Ieones Orchi Picherin i 
(rev 

Bornet’s eee de op EG 59 
Boulger, >» BOS) AS Hor A 


cael Focost Trees ‘(rev x 
his s Biographical Index (rey.), 286 
= 8. Moore’s Expedition to, 


Sedu ‘Le Thé’ (rev.), 188 
ee. s ‘Botanica Sini- 


British Serine Guide to Bermpeithy’ s 
ungi, 1 ; Alge in, 205; Dia 
Dent in “352; Report of Bot. 


Bric Bed ak a 65; first 
records of, 85, 150, 244, 274, 804 
ana J., Supplement to br ome 
any (re re 89; Sam . aa )s 

Ra Herbarium 


Ton rnal : ate i ae 


Cor 
‘Flora of. Cajon” nor: 315; 


a, 373 

hows 8 (N. E.) be ge to 
English Botany (rev.), 8' 

Burkill, oy Cornbridgeshire 

iens, 3; on oy of Glou- 

cestershire (rev.), 28 

Burnat’s ‘Flore des ‘Kisee Mari- 
times,’ 160 


INDEX. 


Botany (rev. ), 37 


Carruthers, W., Sake as Taiwaniana* 
& 330, 


135; abnormal a ee 182; Re- 
miniscences 0 . DeCandolle, 


Clarke, W. A., First Records of 
British Plants, 85, 150, 244, 274, 
304 


Cochlearia mes al 309 
Collectors’ number 

Colona serratifolia, 3 

Conifer Conference Rept: (rev.), 90 
Continuity of protoplasm, 51 
Cooke’s ‘Romance of Low Life,’ 


379 
Cooke, T., appointed to Imperial 
Institute, 350 
Corylus, Hormaphrodite, 153 
County REcor 
Bedford, 10, 80, 818, 350 
Berks, 327 
Brecon, 16, 326 
Buckingham, 80, ae 
. Cambridge, 
Carnarvon, 107, reed 197, 201 
— 72 


wail, 107 

Doceiad. 107, 147 
tal 178, ly 197, 325, 326, 374 
Devon, 279, 3 
Dursst, 63, 182, 201, 218, racy 6 
Glamorgan, 148, 179, 97, 
ering 11 

ants, 89, 106, 107, 183, 289, 308, 


369 
Seer y 14, 15, 197, 825, 826 
rtford, 10 


, 


Kent 56, 158, 183, 217, 219, 249, 
3, 826, 339 


INDEX. 


County Recorps (contd.) :— 
374 


Middlesex, 218, 2 
rthampton, 105 


Ra 
Salop, 2 1, 257 
—sgaa 28, 115—7, 201, 249, 


280 
Stafford, 248, 249, 325, 326 
Suffolk, 107 
Surrey, 20, 21, 182, 201, 282, 326, 


371 
Warwick, 30, 128, 308, 318, 350, 
381 


Wosncuaai 177, 200, 219 
Wilts, 
Worcester, 56, 128, 372 


See also . mor weenie 


Deby’s Diatomacex, 352 
DeCandolle, A., Reminiscences of, 


Dixon, H. N., British species of 
Camoplonels 105; Papaver stri- 
gosum, 310 

Do H. W., Lonicera — 
folium, = , Bpilobium hirsut 


x obscurum, 872; Ut eioniarih 
base ari 372 
+t Nat. Hist. Soc 


e, G. | Lagurus ee 22; 
Soaabas palustris, 183 ; Euphor- 
bia Esula, 184; Phegopteris cal- 
carea, 217; Flora of Berkshire 

2 


Dumontia filiformis, 250 

—, ‘Structure of Wheat’ 
. v.), 15 
Dunn’s ‘Flora of §.W. Surrey’ 
(rev.), 


[61 
Eastbourne Nat. a ge Trans., 
Edelweiss, Artificial, 2 
Eloc 


ocarpus edulis, sar Ganitrus, 


387 


Elatine hexandra, 308 

Eleocharis ayy ag ce 809, 3871 

Elliott, G. F. S., Dumfries Flora, 
mi Expedition to Mombassa, 

819; Sierra —_ Report, 352 

Enantiophylla, 

En demic British Dlaabs, 65 

myi, 123; hirsutum 


Erythea 
Porhtctia ‘eula, 184 
Felsted School Nat. Hist. Soc., 96 


Malayan, 225; Indian, nl 
Pielding’s agape es of Malli 


‘Flora Corcirese,’ 


ides 
r, A., Potamogeton x pape 
pe he 387, 338), 353 


Gepp, A., Les rennet ae 595 


James on’s ‘ Gui 
(rev 
Gibson, R. _ etd New Zealand 


Algw, 161 

Géakegtlaniat Prainii i,* 226 

Gossypium Secaitee 330 

Grevillea, Index to, 22 

Groves, , Allen’s Americ 
Characese (rev. ), 156; Ginieolaria 
intermedia, 

Guernsey Moss: 

Gyromitra oes "129 (t. 334) 


per F. J., Flora of Kent, 153 
, Bt, Helianthemum vul- 


par e, 2 
Hazels, ee rer 
Helian REE ; 
s 9 «> Ba Dicguastilon! 
Index’ (rev.), 28 
Hick, T. Hi, ‘Fossil Plants’ (rev.), 57 
w to Britain, 


Hippophae EO 
Holmes, M., bevphovain gra- 
cile, 24 


888 
Hooker’s ‘ Bot. Beechey’s Voyage,’ 
Hybrids, Naturel, 20, 56; Potentilla, 
Fivmcnoheies, 159 


Index, the worst, 224 
‘Index Kewensis,’ _ 852, 383 
Inversion, cases of, 3 
Trish Plants, 18, = 21, 80,31, 33,49, 
56, 105—7, 128, 58,218, 238, 249, 
250, 286, 299, a 318, 326, 350, 
, 388; Lejeune 117 
Ischemum Pee: ea * 859 
— B. D., Bibliographical 
tes, 297; his ‘Index Kewen- 
: sis’ (rev. , 
Jackson ps By ‘Le Thé’ (rev.), 188 
Jaimosen’s ‘Gui ide to Mosses,’ 844 
A 8 ore in, 22 
Juniperus interm 
Jura Lakes, Yausladion of, 377 


Kelsall, J. E., Vicia bithynica, 89 
Kew ew Bulletin, 81, 96, 160, 192, 256, 
319 351, 


uides, 
= 160. 192, 319, 351 
Kneipp’ 8 Plant-atlas, 319 
Oke - Vorliufige Nachricht’ 


ona. Os, asi 3738 
Kyd, Robert, 35 


pir aah —_ 

Lathyrus tuber. 

LP 8 ‘ Food of Panis’ (rev.), 221 
Lecythium 

Lees’s Hiscadica Flora (rev.), 


en H.C., Limosella aquatica, 


E., Cerastium t- 
a =e aeiais 
nic aprifolium, 153, 183 
Lophocolea spicata, 122 


INDEX. 


Lubbock, Sir J., ‘ Seedlings’ (rev.), 


23 
Lychnis, Disintegration of, 167 
Lycopodium alpinum, 37 


McArdle’s Howth Hepatice, 383 
Macmillan’s ‘ Metasperme’ (rev.), 


Macoun’s Canadian Mosses, 61 
ee oo of, 68, 212, 267, 


hace d, E. D., Guernsey Mosses, 
76; Scilly Plants, 265 
Marshall, EK. 8., Natural Hybrids, 
20; Salis. Moorei, sro beceee-> 
Sommerfeltii tum, 22; 
lisma eter var. ZOS- 
terifolium, o ; Ajuga pyramidalis, 
89; Ru tg mmobiu et Flora 
f "Ken 15 53; pec a Capri- 
folium, ey Po davaale: onpplet; 
183; Rosa Doniana, 217; Scot- 
tish "Plants, 228 ; Ruppia 
249 ; 


35; Rubus spectabilis, 1 183 
Me soc vill, J. E., Rubus spectabilis, 


Miers, John, Gossypium lances- 
forme,* 380 

Millon’s reagent, 51; fluid, 52 

Mills’s ‘Diatomacen’ (rev.), 2 

Missouri Bot. Garden Report rev.), 


Mitten, W., C. P. Smith, 32 

Mocquerysia, 255 

Modiola, 868 

Modiolastrum, 368 

Moore, 8. le M., Laboratory Notes, 
51; Brazilian i on 

Moquin on Jura Lakes, 877 

More, me G., Botany of Ireland, 


Morong’s N. American Naiadacex 
, 61; Guernsey, 


76; Simoumdeat 25 
Mueller, Sir F. von, Papuan Plants, 
321 


Murray, G. R. M., C. P. Smith, 31; 


379; F. J. Kilteine, son 


Mycetozon of Herts and Beds, 


: 
c 
d 
| 
s 
. 
: 
: 


INDEX. 889 


eno Essay 223 

Nephrodium arate 227 

Newilignte, , Hermaphrodite 
Hazels, 153 

New Gonlanit Alge, 161 (t. 335) 

Nicholls, A. W. A Na cae Agri- 
¢ ture’ (rev.), 2 

Nisbet’s ‘ British Forest Trees’ 


OBITUA 
tadeand ‘Blomefield, se 
Benjamin Carrington, 120 
Alphonse DeCandolle, 159 


H. H. Higgins 
Robert Holland, 241 
F 


mith, 31 
A. aroianl “Tozzetti, 160 
Thomas Westcombe, 192 
W. Woolls, 128 
se 258, 338 
liver, D., Linnean Medal pre- 
gaiitodk to, 191 
Oliver, F. W. +, On wou 160 
Ooeystis apiculata, 
Ore bid Review, 31, sg 820 


Oxyria digyna, 374 


Papaver cog 810, 339 
Papuan Plants, 321 


earson “a. Benjamin Car 
rington, 120; Lophocolea aplaiite, 


Pereival 0. H. 8., Hybrid Orchis, 
; Lathyrus ’ tuberosus, 248 ; 
Lobelia urens, 27 
oe pe = ha As 374 
Pheo 
Phagoprcs calcarea, 217 
Phillips, W., Gyromitra gigas, 129 


t. 

Pim, G., Azolla caroliniana, 241 
Piracy, 63 

Plant-names, American, 30 
Plenosporium Browniansa, 164 


Polygala oxyptera, 183 
Polysiphonia omega! 167 
Polyzonia cuneifolia, 165 
Potamogeton Notes, 132, 294; P. 
Aschersonii,* he Billupsii 
(tt. 337, 338), 

Potato, Tubers ‘ith (t. 836), 193 
Potentilla- 7 ne 825, 874 
Potter’s cultur al Botany ’ 
(rev.), 37 


Praeger Ne Ll., Carex rhyncho- 
physa (t. 382), 83; Flora of Ar- 
magh, 238; Spiranthes Roman- 
a an 2503 Eleocharis acicu- 


laris, 309 

Proisplast continuity of, 51 

Pseva, 373 

Pur ve , W. H., Corrections, 374 

Pyrola Totuadifolis, 832; serotina, 
334, 373 


Quinetia Macgregorii, 324 


Raddia, 357 

Ray’s Herbarium, nad 

Rendle, A. B., Seedlings (rev.), 23; 
Year-book of Scenes eek, pert 
Handbook o we (rev.), 154; 
Tubers within in potato (t. ~— 193; 
Zimmerm enzelle 
(rev.), 251; 7. Bolle 8 oe Or- 

i v.) 


; Bois’ Or 
chidées (rev.), 346; Kdélreuter’s 
Nachricht a 348; New Afri- 
can cena 


REVIE 
Contribution to Knowledge of 
gs. 


Sir John Lubbock, 
Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate. 
A. C. Seward, 57 
Les cam mig de Schonsboe. E. 
9 


Les Lie iad s. A. Acloque, 59 
ee to fingish Botany. 
N. E. Bro 


Conifer Suedicoss Report, 90 
= on A. Chatin, 92 

Sam 

Flora of iaslabies F.A. Lees, 


Vout a ok of Science, 124 
Handbook ofIridex. J.G. Baker, 


154 

Characes of America. T. I’. Allen, 
156 

Structure of Wheat. R. Dunham, 
157 


390 


Reviews (contd.) :— 
“a of N. America. T. 
orong, 184 
Journal eK ew Guild, 1 
Ferns of South Africa. t . Sim, 
Le Thé. A. Brétrix, 
Missouri Bot. Garden. ck 219 
Tropical a. Av Bi A. 
Nicho 
Food of Plante. A. P. Laurie, 
22, 
Morphologie der Pflanzenzelle. 
A. Zimmermann, 
British Forest Trees. J. Nisbet, 


253 
Bulbous Irises. M. Foster, 254 
Biographical Index. J. Britten & 
. 8. Boulger, 
Flora of Seng west Surrey. 8. F. 
Dunn, 2 
dl ‘ot Malling. C. H. 
J. H. 


Introduetion to Diatomacer. F. 
W. Mills, 


fon oe ona 
urkill, 283 


Index Kewensis. B.D. Jackson, 
310 

Minnesota Metasperme. C. Mac- 
millan, 

British Mosses. H.C. Jameson, 


Icones Orchidearum. H. Bolus, 


Les Orchidées. D. Boi 

J. G. Kélreuter’s Verlinfige 
Nachric W. Pfeffer, 348 

Flora of Ce H. Trimen, a 


lon 
La ape des ‘Lacs du Jura. 
in, 877 
Siactioral Botany. M.C. Pot- 
ter, 378 
Romance of Low Life amongst 
Plants. M. C. Cooke, 879 
Rhodochorton Parkeri,* 163 (t. 385) 


Rogers, W. M., Key to British 
Rubi, 340 

— F., Lycopodium alpinum, 

Rosa Doniana, 217 

Rubi, Key to British, 3, 40; Shrop- 
shire, 21; Bucks & Beds, 80, 
218; Set of British (rev.), 156 

Rubus prpag 2s 13; ochro- 
dermis,* 15; mobius, 89; 


spectabilis naturalized, 183, 838° 
Ruppia spiralis, 24 


INDEX. 


Rusbya, 
Russian Thistle, 191 


a ag Plants, 351, 382 
E. 8., Va lerianella cari- 
va, 6 56; Lo °C. E.), Thlaspi oc- 


galsola ate var. Tragus, 191 
amos (rev. 


, 93 
gore f _ Herts & Beds Myce- 


ais ossip,’ cessation of, 319 

Scilly Plants, 118, 265 

Scortechini’s "Ma layan Ferns, 225 

Scottish Plants, 18, 20, 48, 50, 89, 
96, 97, 106, 145— 9, 177-82, 
195—202, 998, 250 

Scully, R. W., Asplenium lanceo- 
latum, 20; Festuca aeuenl 56 


Seedlings (rev. ), 23 
=a opsis, 1 
ward's ‘ ‘ Fossil Plants’ (rev.), 57 


Sim’ s Ferns of 8. Africa (rev-), 

Sirobasidium, 80 

Sloanea Forbesii,* * 

Smith’s (W. G.) Guide to Sowerby’s 
128 


, 
rville, A., tee Plants, 118 
Sakehas palustris, 183 
Soppitt, Te cidium leuco- 
spermum, 273 3 
money A s Models of Fungi, Guide 


Splinralen, 361; albiflora, reed 
crispa,* 


ealiforni 363 ; 36 
malvastroides,* 366; Mandoni,* ig 
364; eri, 


Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, 250 

Spring, the abnormal, 182 

Tatum, E. J., Wilts oe 23 

Thlaspi occitanum, 2 

Thompson, H.§., latine hexandra, 
8 


Towndrow, R. F., Arctium inter- 
mediu, 56; Papaver strigosum, 


339 

Trimen’s ‘Flora of Ceylon’ (rev-), 
5 ‘ 

Tubers within Potato (t. 336), 193 


Utricularia Bremii, 872 r- 
media, 218, 374; Fin ah oi 372 


Vandalism, 
Vasey’s Pecifi Slope Grasses, 62, 
287 


INDEX. 


Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous 
Plants, 160 

Vicia bithynica, 89 

Waddell, C. H., Irish Lejeynee, 


vi 
West, be a Freshwater Algez, 

97 (t. 
Whiter, c. Ba Hippophae rham- 


Wikte 0 urrey Plants, 
Rosa involuta, 23; Bristol Plas 
115 


391 

White’ s Selborne Plants, 28 

illiams, F. N., Disintegration of 

Lychnis, 167 ; Artificial Edel- 
279 


Wissadula Balanse,* 69 
oolward’s Masdevallia, 256 


Year-book of Science (rev.), 124 
Young’s Botanical Schedules, 383 


Zimmermann’s ‘Morphologie der 
Pflanzenzelle ’ (rev.), 251 


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By ANNE PRATT. With 313 accuraiely-coloured Plates. 

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